Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent

Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages

By: Kate Rudy

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Paperback | 2 September 2011

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Walking in Christ's footsteps was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images. Kathryn M. Rudy, Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, is an authority on Northern European illuminated manuscripts and prints. She has written about indulgences and the functions of images.

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