Jerusalem Reformed: Rethinking Early Modern Pilgrimage

Recent scholarship has challenged the still-powerful claim that long-distance pilgrimage and the journey to Jerusalem dramatically declined in number and significance in the sixteenth century. This article seeks to explore the different ways in which pilgrimage was embedded in the culture of the per...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 796 - 848
Main Authors Henny, Sundar, Shalev, Zur
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.01.2022
Subjects
Case studies
Holy places
Murders & murder attempts
Pilgrimages
Pilgrims
Religion
Renaissance period
Traditions
Travel
Jerusalem Israel
Israel
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Summary:Recent scholarship has challenged the still-powerful claim that long-distance pilgrimage and the journey to Jerusalem dramatically declined in number and significance in the sixteenth century. This article seeks to explore the different ways in which pilgrimage was embedded in the culture of the period. We interpret pilgrimage as a field of shared cross-confessional practices, representational conventions, and contestation. The paper presents a series of interlinked case studies, based on printed sources, correspondence, family archives, and material evidence. Together they demonstrate that early modern pilgrimage perpetuated medieval practices and yet was in constant dialogue with contemporary, post-Reformation religious and intellectual trends.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2022.212