Were used as the sole liable resource for votaries to partake in repentance. Virtual pilgrimage was prevalent but not limited to the thirteenth toįourteenth-century European monastic environment, in which manuscripts Miscellany, the paper investigates the unconventional In the Cistercian manuscript booklet the Villers Through aĬhronica Majora and a folio of Christ’s side wound With a deeply rooted legacy in Christianity, the human senses act not only as the bridge between material reality andĪs a toolkit for meditation on Christ’s Passion,Įmotive response as a physical pilgrimage. Manuscripts activated their readers’ sensory perceptions, which further translated into a ‘sixth sense’ (intellectual/imaginary sense) to mediate the virtual Travel records, devotional texts, and maps. Internalise the experience of a pilgrimage through reading manuscripts of ‘Virtual’ or ‘armchair’ pilgrimage thus became a popular phenomenon in the medieval monastic environment votaries began to Thirteenth and fourteenth-century monks and nuns in medievalĮurope hold a unique relation to pilgrimage-related manuscripts – they areĪmongst the few literate demographics of the era, yet due to their monasticĭuties they cannot partake in the kind of physical pilgrimages the depicted
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