Recent scholarship has challenged the still-powerful claim that long-distance pilgrimage and journey to Jerusalem dramatically declined in number significance sixteenth century. This article seeks explore different ways which was embedded culture of period. We interpret as a field shared cross-confessional practices, representational conventions, contestation. The paper presents series interlin...

OBJECTIVE Physical exercise has multiple beneficial health effects. Yearly, over five million persons walk a pilgrimage in various parts of the World, and this number is increasing. Here we report the effects on vascular function and cardiovascular risk factors of a 12-day pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. METHODS Twenty-nine healthy male and female subjects between 40 and 70 yea...

Pilgrimage formed a central motif of medieval culture and shaped defining aesthetic early literature. Despite this centrality, research remains in preliminary state for many the actual texts, manuscripts, books connected to pilgrimage how they contributed exchange translation knowledge ideas. This special issue considers issues reading writing before, during, after pilgrimages, as well methodol...

The word “micro” or “mini” is increasingly appearing in relation to pilgrimage. A Guardian article December 2021 described a guided pilgrimage walk Sussex as “micro pilgrimage”; the spring of 2022, six pilgrimages” took place southern England. However, what micro pilgrimage, and has prompted its sudden surge popularity? This explores this seemingly innovative practice, focusing on Britain, wher...

This paper explores transformations of self through pilgrimage consumption. A three year ethnographic study of Lourdes, one of the largest Catholic pilgrimage destinations, reveals the concept of “mini-miracles” to refer to those miracles that occur in and are important to an individual’s life, but are unlikely ever to be officially deemed as miracles in the eyes of the church. Mini-miracles tr...