Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent. Kathryn M. Rudy, Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent. Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages (Disciplina Monastica. Studies on Medieval Monastic Life 8), Brepols, 2011

Abstract

This essay reviews Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent. Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages by Kathryn M. Rudy. This book explores the mental and physical interaction between female religious in late medieval Dutch convents and a group of manuscripts and artefacts created to assist their devotions as they travelled on imaginary pilgrimages.

Keywords

• pilgrimage
• convent
• compassion
• Middle Durch
• devotional art
• somaticism