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

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.

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. Voyage dans la littérature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature Travel in literature Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.