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

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Main Author: Beebe, Kathryne, 1978- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Edition: First edition.

Series: Oxford historical monographs.

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Call Number: DS106 .B44 2014

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.