Pilgrim & preacher : the audiences and observant spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502) / Kathryne Beebe

Author: Beebe, Kathryne, 1978-
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

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Oxford historical monographs

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Setting Off -- The Background -- Fabri's Literary and Pilgrim Antecedents -- The Medieval Audience for Pilgrimage Literature -- 2.Felix Fabri, Dominican Pilgrim and Writer -- Fabri's Life -- Fabri's Ulm -- Fabri's Writing -- Fabri's Pilgrimage Works -- Fabri's Place in Pilgrimage Literature -- 3.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 -- 4.`Thus end the lies': Armchair Pilgrims and Actual Audiences -- Manuscript Transmission -- Fabri's `Fellow Travellers' -- Marginalia -- Fabri's Actual Readership -- 5.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 -- 6.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.

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ISBN

9780191785641 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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