Richard Guldeford's Pilgrimage
Piety and Cultural Change in Late Fifteenth‐ and Early Sixteenth‐Century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9877011 |
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| Authors | Rob Lutton (University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 329 |
| Pages | 41-78 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-229x.2012.00578.x |
| OpenAlex | W1600161014 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The account of Sir Richard Guldeford's pilgrimage, printed in 1511, is just one of over 500 surviving medieval accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage. In many ways conventional, it nonetheless bears a number of distinctive features. Its presentation of first‐person detailed eyewitness testimony in conjunction with judicious use of source material, innovative treatment of travel balanced with sober and restrained piety, and eschewal of some of the more fabulous aspects of pilgrimage literature, all make it an important example of the vogue for sober piety in late fifteenth‐ and early sixteenth‐century England. It provides evidence of critical engagement with debates surrounding pilgrimage and related aspects of religious practice such as indulgences and the cult of relics, and it is an important example of new approaches to the writing and publishing of the literature of pilgrimage and travel. Richard Guldeford, royal courtier and civil servant, did not write the account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but it emanated from the Guldeford family's interests in fashionable humanist learning and reformist religious sensibilities. The text's innovations and tensions are representative of wider shifts and deeper fault‐lines in late medieval religious culture prior to the enormous religious changes of the Reformation, and are further evidence of the ways in which pre‐Reformation orthodox religious culture was neither homogeneous nor unchanging. Above all, it offered a reformed and rehabilitated practice of the Jerusalem pilgrimage at a time when pilgrimage was increasingly vulnerable to attacks from both orthodox and heterodox critics
Ancient history · Cult · Fifteenth · Piety · Pilgrimage · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
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Mandeville's Travels
The Heads of Religious Houses
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII
Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
Contesting the sacred
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Press, politics and religion
The King's mother. Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
The Powers of the Holy
Mandeville's Medieval Audiences
Power and Imagination. City-States in Renaissance Italy
Marking the Hours
Select Cases in the Council of Henry VII
On Foot in Sussex
English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution
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