出版社：International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
摘要：Kathryn Rudy's Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages is an important book that covers an essential, but neglected aspect of medieval pilgrimage, pilgrimages as performed by people who could not travel. Readers of Peregrinations may find that it also opens the door to many new studies, including reconsiderations of familiar material, in the realm of pilgrimage art. The book is centered on seventeen texts that were copied by religious women in the Low Countries and used for inducing virtual pilgrimage experiences within the confines of the convent. The book analyzes and explains several different modes of virtual pilgrimage and the role it played in the devotions of late medieval nuns and other religious women. The discussion is centered in the Low Countries, but in a section near the end, Rudy presents evidence that related devotions were practiced throughout Europe and also by lay people.
