A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage

This authoritative and comprehensive Companion offers a thematic approach to the experience of the medieval pilgrim, with a particular focus on how pilgrims prepared for and negotiated their journeys; what they saw and did at shrines; and how they understood their journeys.

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published extensively on monasticism, pilgrimage, and religious life in the Crusader States. His most recent book, co-authored with Bernard Hamilton, is Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States (2020).

William J. Purkis is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. He is a historian of crusading, pilgrimage, and monasticism, whose publications include Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095–c. 1187 (2008).