'Stronger than men and braver than knights': women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages
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Leigh Ann Craig [1]
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[1] Ohio State University
Ohio State University
City of Columbus, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of medieval history, ISSN 0304-4181, Vol. 29, Nº 3, 2003, págs. 153-175
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Women who participated in the long-distance pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries faced a variety of economic and social barriers. Based upon the pilgrimage narratives of Margery Kempe, Felix Fabri, and others, this article examines the strategies women used to overcome those barriers both before and during the journey. While resistance to women’s pilgrimages was strong, in part, because they did not fit their quotidian roles as caregivers, it was nevertheless to aspects of those same normative roles that women appealed in order to justify their pilgrimages and shield themselves from censure during their journeys.
