The age of pilgrimage : the medieval journey to God - Sumption, Jonathan (Mahwah, NJ : HiddenSpring, 2003)
The cult of relics -- The saints and their relics -- The pursuit of the miraculous -- The medicine of the sick -- Origins and ideals -- The penitential pilgrimage -- The great age of pilgrimage -- The legacy of the Crusades -- The growth of a cult -- The journey -- The sanctuary -- Rome -- The later Middle Ages 1 -- The later Middle Ages 2 -- mediaeval christianity: religion to ritual.
Originally published: Pilgrimage. London : Faber & Faber, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-548) and index.
Keywords: Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History -- To 1500.; Travel, Medieval