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

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beebe, Kathryne, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Fabri, Felix, > 1441 or 1442-1502.
Fabri, Felix, > 1441 or 1442-1502
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Travel in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Travel in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting off. The background ; Fabri's literary and pilgrim antecedents ; The medieval audience for pilgrimage literature
  • Felix Fabri, Dominican pilgrim and writer. Fabri's life ; Fabri's Ulb ; Fabri's writing ; Fabri's pilgrimage works ; Fabri's place in pilgrimage literature
  • 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
  • 'Thus end the lies' : armchair pilgrims and actual audiences. Manuscript transmission ; Fabri's 'fellow travelers' ; Marginalia ; Fabri's actual readership
  • 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
  • Conclusion : home and back again.

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