Description

This book presents new translations of a selection of Latin and French pilgrimage texts – and two in Greek – relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land between the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and the loss of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291. It therefore complements and extends existing studies, which deal with the period from Late Antiquity to Saladin’s conquest. Such texts provide a wealth of information not only about the business of pilgrimage itself, but also on church history, topography, architecture and the social and economic conditions prevailing in Palestine in this period.

Pilgrimage texts of the 13th century have not previously been studied as a group in this way