Publisher's description:
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage is an interdisciplinary reference work, giving wide coverage of the role of travel in medieval religious life. Dealing with the period 300-1500 A.D., it offers both basic data on as broad a range of European pilgrimage as possible and clearly written, self-contained introductions to the general questions of pilgrimage research.
Despite widespread modern interest in medieval pilgrimage and related issues, no comprehensive work of this type exists and it will be of interest to scholars and students for personal and academic use. Local sites of pilgrimage are represented in this work as well as the main routes to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago. Written and material sources relating to pilgrimage are used to illustrate aspects of medieval society, from brewing, book production and the trade in relics, to the development of the towns, art, architecture and literature which pilgrimage engendered. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage will serve as the main starting point for any serious study of this phenomenon.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage is published in English in one illustrated volume of 550,000 words in 435 signed entries, and is compiled and written by over 180 contributors from Europe and North America. Entries are present alphabetically under headwords, with cross-references, maps, black-and-white illustrations, an editorial introduction and lists of theme and keywords.

Table of contents:
Six main thematic divisions: 1. Art and Architecture; 2. Canon Law and theology; 3. Christian writing & literature; 4. Devotional practices; 5. Economic aspects; 6. Social aspects, with further divisions on the basis of chronology and regional variations.
Architecture
Access to Shrines
Altarpieces
Ambulatories
Apses
Archivolted Portals
Bridges and Bridge Chapels
Byzantine Pilgrimage Architecture
Charlemagne in Architecture
Chartreuse de Champmol
Corona Chandeliers
Crypts
English Gothic Architecture
English Romanesque Architecture
French Gothic Architecture
French Romanesque Architecture
German Pilgrimage Architecture
Holy Land Gothic Architecture
Holy Land Romanesque Architecture
Holy Wells
Iconography of Decoration
Influence of Earlier Christian Architecture
Iron Grilles in Churches
Italian Gothic Architecture
Italian Romanesque Architecture
Lindisfarne
Lintel on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Mosaics
Painted Columns in the Church of the Nativity
Pavements, Labyrinths
Pilgrimage Churches
Retables and Altarpieces
Romanesque Church Plans
Sculptural Decoration
Silver Altar, Pistoia Cathedral
Spanish Gothic Architecture
Spanish Romanesque Architecture
Treasuries
Watching Chambers
Church Architecture
Aachen Cathedral
Abbey of Cluny
Basilica of Tours
Beverley Minster
Canterbury Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral
Church of Sainte-Foy, Conques
Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Cologne Cathedral
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Ely Cathedral
Heiltumsschatz
Holy Blood of Wilsnack
Holy Chapel
Jerusalem Chapel, Bruges
Lincoln Cathedral
Notre Dame, Paris
Pisa Cathedral
Pistoia Churches
Santiago de Compostela
Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey
Scala Sancta
St Albans
St Elisabeth Church
St Etienne-des-Gres
St James in Architecture (Compostela)
St John Lateran
St Martial in Architecture
St Paul Outside the Walls
St Peter's
St Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg
St Ursula, Cologne
Sta Maria Maggiore
Trier Cathedral
Vadstena Abbey
Wells
Cult and Devotion
Anthony of Padua
Belongings of Saints
Birgitta of Sweden
Bishops and Abbots, Shrines of
Bleeding Hosts
Bodily Relics
Canonization
Catherine of Alexandria
Child Saints
Confraternities
Consecration of Shrines
Contact Relics
Dreams and Visions of Saints
Edward the Confessor
Eucharist
Exhumation and Translation of Saints
Exposure of Relics
Francis of Assisi
Holy Blood
James the Greater
Lawrence
Louis IX
Magi
Malefica by Saints
Mark the Evangelist
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours in Spain
Martyrs
Mary Magdalen
Mary's Wedding Ring
Michael the Archangel
Miracles
Miracles as Propaganda
Patron Saints
Paul
Penance
Peripatetic Saints
Peter
Plague Saints
Processions of Relics
Relic Keepers
Relics
Relics of Christ's Passion
Relics of the Christ Child
Relics of the Virgin Mary
Rosaries
Stephen
Textile Contact Relics
Theft and Sale of Relics
Thomas Becket, Worship of
Virgin Mary, Cult of
Cult Objects
Byzantine Ampullae
Crusader Kingdom Ampullae
Early Pilgrimage Woodblock Prints
English Illuminated Vitae
Essen Madonna
Iconography of Pilgrim Badges
Iconology of Materials
Indulgence Handbills
Legendary Presents of Charlemagne
Manuscript Illumination
Pilgrim Accessories
Pilgrim Badges
Shrines, Decoration, Textiles
Terracotta Sculptures
Votives
Wax Candles
Early Pilgrimage
Ampullae
Caravan
Cluniac Promotion of Pilgrimage
Empress Helena
Exile as Pilgrimage
Gift -giving and Charity
Guelph Treasure
Guidebooks
Holy Sepulchre, Architectural Copies of
Itinerarium of Egeria
Liturgy and Pilgrimage
Maps and Plans
Melania the Elder
Melania the Younger
Monastic Pilgrimage
Pagan Pilgrimage
Paulinus of Nola
Penitential Pilgrimage
Philip the Good
Pilgrimage to Holy People
Spiritual Pilgrimage
St Simeon Stylites the Elder
Travel
True Cross
Economy
Banditry
Donations and the Economics of Shrines
Fairs
Food
Horses and Donkeys
Inns
Lodging
Markets
Pilgrim Beggars
Pilgrim Galley
Piracy
Professional Pilgrims
Prostitution and Brothels
Shipping
Souvenirs
Trade and Pilgrimage
Urban Tourism
Wills of Pilgrims
Experiences
Barefootedness
Bent Coins
Burial ad Sanctos
Candles
Chains
Crutches
Ex Votos
Fasting
Gender Segregation
Interaction with Relics
Measurement
Music and Pilgrimage
Opposition to Pilgrimage
Palmer
Penitential Practices
Pilgrim Prayers
Processional Pilgrimage and Relics
Ritual Bathing
Silver Images
Tomb Dust
Touching of Relics
Vicarious Pilgrimage
Vigils
Weather
Islamic Pilgrimage
Great Mosque, Damascus
Hajj
Mamluk Pilgrimage (1250–1517)
Ziyara
Jewish Pilgrimage
Jewish Pilgrimage
Literature
Accounts of Art in Churches
Deguileville
Early Pilgrimage Itineraries (333–1099)
Egeria
English Literary Pilgrimage
Fabulous or Imaginative Pilgrimages
Felix Fabri
Gregory of Tours
Homo Viator
Irish Immrama
Jacques de Vitry
Late Medieval French Pilgrimage Narratives
Late Medieval German Pilgrimage Narratives
Literary Voice of the Pilgrim
Magi Narratives
Matthew Paris's Maps
Medieval Pilgrimage Writing and its Manuscript Sources
Miles Christi
Narrative Accounts, Itineraries and Descriptions
Navigatio Sancti Brendani
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam
Petrarch's Pilgrimage
Philippe de Mezieres
Pilgrimage as Metaphor
Pilgrimage in Medieval Drama
Pilgrimage of Charlemagne
Satiric or Parodic Views of Pilgrimage
Scandinavian Pilgrimage Narratives
Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage
St Mary of Egypt
St Roch
Sym and his Bruder
Miracles
Blindness
Deafness
Death and Resurrection in Miracles
Fire
Freeing of Prisoners
Healing and Relapse
Illness Miracles
Lactation
Lameness
Leprosy
Madness
Miracles and Blasphemy
Miracles and Injury
Miracles of Healing
Miracles of Justice
Miracles of Pregnancy and Birth
Miracles of Protection
Miracles of Rescue
Rescue from Execution
Shipwreck
Reliquaries
Ambazac Chasse
Arca Santa
Bernward Paten
Body Part Shapes
Casket of Stephen
Casket of the True Cross
Caskets of John the Baptist and Pelagius
Chasses, Feretories, Bourses, Caskets, and Coffrets
Crosses and Cross Bases
Crusader Kingdom Reliquaries
Demetrios
Enger
Eucharistic Iconography
Felix
Hadelinus
Hagiography, Local History and Theology
Hubertus
Inscriptions
Irish Cult Objects
Isidore of Leon
Italian Reliquaries
Limoges Enamels
Lobed Phylacteries
Monstrances and Ostensoria
Pope Alexander
Reliquaries of Benedict, Scholastica and Maur
Reliquaries of Charlemagne
Reliquaries of St Stephen
Reliquaries of Thomas Becket
Reliquary of Elizabeth of Marburg
Reliquary of Pepin
Reliquary of St James
Reliquary of St Martial
Reliquary of St Ursula
Reliquary of the Virgin
Rheno- Mosan Art
Sacred Girdle of the Virgin
Sainte-Chasse
Salvation Themes
St Aemilian
St Foy, Statue of
St Magdalen Altarpiece
St Maurice
Statues
Tower Reliquaries
Typology of Reliquaries
Vessels
Volto Santo
Sites
Aachen
Abbey of Saint-Denis
Anno, Shrine of
Assisi
Athos
Autun
Auxerre
Balkan Road Rock Paintings
Basilica of St John Lateran
Bruges
Burgos
Burgundian Pilgrimage
Celtic and Welsh Sites
Cluny
Compostela, Routes to
Conques
Constantinople
Czestochowa
Einsiedeln
Einsiedeln Abbey
English Sites
Finisterre
German Sites
Glastonbury
Iona
Iona Abbey
Irish Pilgrimage
Le Puy
Leon
Low Countries
Mecca
Medina
Monastery of Lindisfarne
Monte Gargano
Montecassino
Montserrat
Moroccan Sites
Mount Sinai
Nidaros
Pilgrimage Routes
Ravenna
Rocamadour
Rome
Rothenburg
Saint Maximin-la-Sainte- Baume
Scandinavian Sites
Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne
Sicily and the South
Spanish Sites
St Alban, Shrine of
St Andrews
St David's
St Giles
St James and Santiago de Compostela
St Patrick's Purgatory
Vadstena, Shrine of
St Winifred's Well
Thessalonika
Toulouse
Venice
Vezelay
Wayside Shrines
Wulfstan, Shrine of
York
Zaragoza
Society
Abandonment of Pilgrims
Barriers to Pilgrimage
Childbirth and Pilgrimage
Children and Pilgrims
Communitas and Pilgrimage
Contested Pilgrimage
Crowds of Pilgrims
False Pilgrims
Fertility
Hat
Hazards of Pilgrimage
Hospital of St John
Knighting of Pilgrims
Liminality
Margery Kempe
Menstruation and Pilgrimage
Motivations for Pilgrimage
Parish Clergy and Pilgrimage
Peregrini
Pilgrim Costume
Pilgrim Groups
Pilgrimage of Friars
Pilgrimage of Monks
Pilgrimage of Nobles
Pilgrimage of Nuns
Pilgrimage of Parents
Pilgrimage of Widows
Pilgrimage of Wives
Poor Pilgrims
Religious Pilgrimage
Return from Pilgrimage
Robe
Royal Pilgrims
Sandals
Scrip
Staff
Theory and Pilgrimage
War and Pilgrimage
Women Pilgrims
Women's Hospital, Jerusalem
Theology
Canon Law Regarding Pilgrims
Certifi cate of Pilgrimage
Corpus Christi
Crusades
Crusading Orders
Indulgences
Papacy and Pilgrimage
Papal Penitentiary
Pardoner
Purgatory
Roman Jubilee
Sexuality and Pilgrimage
Vows