The Life of a Medieval Pilgrim | Human Voiced No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome 00:03:40 But.... Why...? 00:10:22 Preparing for the Journey 00:13:53 The Pilgrim’s Gear 00:17:38 Routes and Destinations 00:23:25 Hardships and Hazards on the Road 00:28:09 Bandits, Outlaws, and Other Threats 00:33:24 Sea Voyages and Shipwrecks 00:38:15 Health Hazards and Sickness 00:43:26 Reaching the Sacred Destination 00:50:11 Thoughts and Conclusion Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Aimery Picaud (c. 1140). The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Book V of the Codex Calixtinus). Sæwulf (1102–1103). Relatio de situ Ierusalem (account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem). Annales Altahenses (c. 1070s). Entries on the Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–1065 (trans. James Brundage, 1962). Margery Kempe (c. 1438). The Book of Margery Kempe (autobiographical pilgrimage account). Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1390). The Canterbury Tales (fictional depiction of a pilgrim group). Jonathan Sumption (1975). The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God. Norbert Ohler (1989). The Medieval Traveller (trans. Caroline Hillier). James Harpur (2002). Sacred Tracks: 2000 Years of Christian Pilgrimage. Einar Joranson (1928). “The Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–65,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 27(1). George Greenia (2018). “Bartered Bodies: Medieval Pilgrims and the Tissue of Faith,” Magistra Vol. 24. Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.