TY - JOUR
T1 - A voyage to the land of mirrors
T2 - Felix Fabri’s narration of the Virgin Mary’s pilgrimages as a model for late medieval Mendicant piety
AU - Rachman-Schrire, Yamit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - Scholars have acknowledged the role mental exercises played in virtual pilgrimages, yet their role in actual voyages to the sacred places is less recognised. One chapter in a pilgrimage account, Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, composed in the early 1480s by the Dominican pilgrim and preacher Felix Fabri, describes the Virgin Mary’s daily pilgrimages to the sacred places in Jerusalem in the 14 years she is said to have lived after the Ascension of Christ. In this chapter Fabri offers a normative model for visiting the sacred places, in the spirit of vita mixta, promoting mental practices as inherent in, and even superior to, the physical act of pilgrimage. A cultural-historical reading of Fabri’s chapter locates it in close relationship to other literary genres, particularly devotional works and sermons.
AB - Scholars have acknowledged the role mental exercises played in virtual pilgrimages, yet their role in actual voyages to the sacred places is less recognised. One chapter in a pilgrimage account, Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, composed in the early 1480s by the Dominican pilgrim and preacher Felix Fabri, describes the Virgin Mary’s daily pilgrimages to the sacred places in Jerusalem in the 14 years she is said to have lived after the Ascension of Christ. In this chapter Fabri offers a normative model for visiting the sacred places, in the spirit of vita mixta, promoting mental practices as inherent in, and even superior to, the physical act of pilgrimage. A cultural-historical reading of Fabri’s chapter locates it in close relationship to other literary genres, particularly devotional works and sermons.
KW - Dominicans
KW - Felix Fabri
KW - Marian landscape
KW - Mendicants
KW - Virgin Mary
KW - devotional literature and images
KW - pilgrimage to the Holy Land
KW - vita mixta
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U2 - 10.1080/03044181.2020.1811134
DO - 10.1080/03044181.2020.1811134
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090081442
SN - 0304-4181
VL - 46
SP - 596
EP - 620
JO - Journal of Medieval History
JF - Journal of Medieval History
IS - 5
ER -