A rich treasury of primary sources vividly bringing to life the background, practice, and significance of medieval pilgrimage. An invaluable resource for students and specialists alike. -- Dee Dyas, University of York Another indispensable book in an already very useful series from the University of Toronto Press. Brett Edward Whalen has selected a cogent and illuminating set of sources offering insights into pilgrimage as a metaphor, an idea, and a practice from the Patristic period to Martin Luther. Anyone who picks up this book will surely want to design a course around it. -- Claire Fanger, Rice University

Pilgrimage inspired and shaped the distinct experiences of commoners and nobles, men and women, clergy and laity for over a thousand years. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader is a rich collection of primary sources for the history of Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the Mediterranean world from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries. The collection illustrates the far-reaching significance and consequences of pilgrimage for the culture, society, economics, politics, and spirituality of the Middle Ages. Brett Edward Whalen focuses on sites within Europe and beyond its borders, including the holy places of Jerusalem, and provides documents that shed light upon Eastern Christian, Jewish, and Islamic pilgrimages. The result is an innovative sourcebook that offers a window into broader trends, shifts, and transformations in the Middle Ages.

"Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, the sixteenth volume of the University of Toronto Press's "Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures" series, provides an impressively comprehensive collection of medieval pilgrimage narratives." - Comitatus

"Overall, the volume supplies an invaluable teaching tool which—like others in the series—is ample and diverse enough to be deployed effectively in many types of courses. Study questions after each selection primarily encourage close reading and a search within the texts for answers, with some opportunities for speculative imagination and comparisons of different sources." - The Medieval Review