Main entry:

Noonan, F. Thomas.

Title & Author:

The road to Jerusalem : pilgrimage and travel in the age of discovery / F. Thomas Noonan.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : in association with the Library of Congress, ©2007.

Description:

x, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Material texts

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.
Introduction : pilgrimage and travel -- pt. I. Modernization of travel -- 1. Medieval pilgrimage into print -- 2. Contemporary pilgrimage into print : 1450-1500 -- pt. II. Transformation of travel -- 3. New worlds and a new voice of travel -- 4. Reformation and the polemics of travel -- 5. Other holy places, other holy lands -- 6. A second voice : terra sancta inter alia -- 7. A third voice : pilgrims on travel and pilgrimage -- Conclusion : alive and well and early modern.

Summary:

"The Road to Jerusalem traces the survival of the literature of pilgrimage as part of the literature of travel from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, when powerful forces ranging from navigation to theology were redefining what it meant to go abroad. Accounts of discovery, exploration, scientific expeditions, tours, and other species of travel crowded a field that had once been dominated by accounts of pilgrimage. Yet pilgrimage did not disappear or retreat to the margins under pressure from these new forms of travel.
Its survival and development, as a rendition of travel and not only as an expression of piety, are documented by a massive body of printed literature largely overlooked by modern scholarship that, in its turn, chronicles continuity and change across centuries of not just European travel but European history and culture in general."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780812239942
0812239946

Subject:

Travel History.
Travelers' writings.
Voyage Histoire.
Écrits de voyageurs.
travel literature.
Travel
Reiseliteratur
Wallfahrt
Entdeckungsreise
Kristna pilgrimer och pilgrimsfärder historia.
Israel Description and travel.

Form/genre:

History
Travelers' writings.

Added entries:

Kieckhefer, Margaret, donor.
Material texts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252260
Call No.: BIB 181946
Status: Available