Summer Lecture Series to Take Audiences on Pilgrimages
Pilgrims in a scene from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," from a 15th century woodcut.
This summer's lecture series from The University of Arizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies' will take audiences back in time to the Middle Ages and lead them to four pilgrimage sites that were significant for European Christianity: the Holy Land, Rome, Canterbury and Santiago de Compostela.
The speakers, all doctoral students in the division, will detail the pilgrims' journeys and listen in on their social interactions and learn of the sites that memorialize the lives of Christ and a major saint, a great miracle or divine appearance and of the rituals that evolved in association with each place.
The lectures will probe the motives of pilgrims. Did their motives originate in piety, penance for a sin committed, the fulfillment of a vow or in the search for a miraculous cure?
- July 26 – "Umbilicus Mundi: Jerusalem as a Medieval Pilgrimage Destination" by Sean Clark
- Aug. 2 – "Roma Caput Mundi: Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages" by Paul Buehler
- Aug. 9 – "Another Tale of Canterbury" by Amy Newhouse
- Aug. 16 – "To the End of the Earth: The Camino de Santiago in Medieval and Modern Times" by Elizabeth Ellis-Marino
For more information, contact Luise Betterton, coordinator for the UA Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at 520-626-5448 or bettertm@u.arizona.edu.
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- What | Summer Lecture Series 2009: "Pilgrimage"
- When | Four consecutive Sundays, July 26 - Aug. 16, at 10:15 am.
- Where | St. Phillip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, Campbell Ave. at River Road
- Extra Info | Lectures are free and open to the public
- Contact Info
Luise Betterton
520-626-5448
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