| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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| Contents |
Setting off. The background ; Fabri's literary and pilgrim antecedents ; The medieval audience for pilgrimage literature -- Felix Fabri, Dominican pilgrim and writer. Fabri's life ; Fabri's Ulb ; Fabri's writing ; Fabri's pilgrimage works ; Fabri's place in pilgrimage literature -- Text as tool : the audiences for Felix Fabri's pilgrimage writings. Fabri's roles and communities ; Laudamus Te : the first sight of the Holy Land ; Cross-readership ; From intended audience to actual audience : Hans Tucher and his brother -- 'Thus end the lies' : armchair pilgrims and actual audiences. Manuscript transmission ; Fabri's 'fellow travelers' ; Marginalia ; Fabri's actual readership -- Reading virtual pilgrimage in context. How a Dominican friar operated ; New perspectives : women, die deutsche Mystik, and the Observants ; Virtual pilgrimage and the observance movement -- Conclusion : home and back again |
| Summary |
This is a volume which seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fabri, Felix, 1441 or 1442-1502.
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| SUBJECT |
Fabri, Felix, 1441 or 1442-1502 fast |
| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
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Travel in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
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Travel in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191026515 |
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0191026514 |
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9781322008615 |
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1322008612 |
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9780191785641 |
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0191785644 |
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