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The story of pilgrimage in the Western world over two millennia.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1. What is Pilgrimage? 5
2. sacred Journeys in Ancient Times 11
3. Early Paths 21
4. The Age of Constantine 29
5. Celts and Anglo-Saxons 37
6. Decline and Revival 51
7. The New Millennium 59
8. Pilgrimage, Relics, and the Afterlife 65
9. On the Road 75
10. Rome 89
11. Santiago de Compostela 97
12. Canterbury 105
13. Jerusalem and the Holy Land 113
14. Changing Attitudes 119
15. From Reformation to Romanticism 125
16. Orthodox Pilgrimage 137
17. Modern Shrines 145
18. Sanctuaries in the Americas 161
19. Reviving the Past 169
Afterword 183
Notes 188
Bibliography 191
Index 196
Acknowledgments 202

About the Author

James Harpur has had four poetry collections published by Anvil Press: A Vision of Comets (1993), The Monk’s Dream (1996), Oracle Bones (2001) and The Dark Age (2007). Anvil have also published his Fortune’s Prisoner, a translation of the poems of Boethius. In addition, he has published a sequence of religious poems called The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea (Wild Goose, 2008). His prose publications include Love Burning in the Soul (Shambhala, 2005), an introduction to the Christian mystics. After studying Classics and English at university, he taught English on the island of Crete then worked as a lexicographer. He is now a freelance writer.