Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Pilgrims exposed themselves to risk and loss in order to experience the spiritual benefits of devotion to the shrine of a saint or a holy place. This authoritative and comprehensive Companion offers a thematic approach to the experience of the medieval pilgrim, from departure to return. The central focus is on how pilgrims prepared for and negotiated their journeys; what they saw and did at shrines; and how they understood their journeys. The Holy Land stands at the centre of the book, because it was the main site of pilgrimage for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrims, but pilgrimages to other sites across Europe and the Near East, and to the shrines of local saints, are also explored.

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published extensively on monasticism, pilgrimage, and religious life in the Crusader States.
William J. Purkis is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. He is a historian of crusading, pilgrimage, and monasticism.

List of Illustrations
Part 1. Paradigms and Sources
Introduction, by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis
Chapter 1. Aspects of Spirituality in Medieval Christian Pilgrimage, by Andrew Jotischky
Chapter 2. Writing Pilgrimage, by Michele Campopiano
Chapter 3. Pilgrimage and the Miraculous, by Philip Booth
Part 2. The Status of the Pilgrim
Chapter 4. Pilgrimage and the Liturgy, by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Chapter 5. Canon Law and the Pilgrim, by Kirsi Salonen
Part 3. The Experience of Pilgrimage
Chapter 6. Women Pilgrims to the Holy Land: From Egeria to Margery Kempe, by Ora Limor
Chapter 7. Moving Away from the “Historical” Benjamin of Tudela, by Marci Freedman
Chapter 8. Pilgrimage and the Extent of the Terra Sancta, by E. J. Mylod
Chapter 9. Materializing Charlemagne’s Iberian Crusade on the Pilgrim Road to Compostela, by William J. Purkis
Chapter 10. Lithic Holy Relics of Late Medieval Rome, by Grahame MacKenzie
Chapter 11. Canterbury in the Landscape of European Pilgrimage, by Rachel Koopmans
Part 4. Homecomings
Chapter 12. Medieval Pilgrim Souvenirs, by Amy Jeffs and Gabriel Byng
Chapter 13. Imagined Pilgrimage, by Kathryne Beebe
Index