Knowing like a Pilgrim

Sundar Henny; Richard J Oosterhoff

doi:10.1080/09518967.2023.2264128

Knowing like a Pilgrim

Sundar Henny
, Richard J Oosterhoff

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This article opens a special issue on ”Pilgrim Knowledge” with a programmatic argument for knowledge-gathering practices as an intrinsic part of pilgrimage in the early modern Mediterranean. It addresses the history of travel, on the one hand, and the history of science and knowledge, on the other. The article then suggests that Christian pilgrimage set a special value on bodily experience, which in turn demanded practices of witnessing, collecting, comparing, codifying, and authenticating, here worked out through a range of examples. Matters of faith were also matters of fact.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	153-180
Number of pages	28
Journal	Mediterranean historical review
Volume	38
Issue number	2
Early online date	13 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2023.2264128
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

pilgrimage
travel
history of science
knowledge practice
early modern Mediterranean
empiricism
autopsy
Holy Land

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Pilgrim Knowledge: Travel and Empiricism in the Early Modern Holy Land
Henny, S. (Editor) & Oosterhoff, R. J. (Editor), 13 Dec 2023, In: Mediterranean historical review. 38, 2, p. 153-305
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Pierre Belon’s singularity: Pilgrim fact in Renaissance natural history
Oosterhoff, R. J., 2023, In: Mediterranean historical review. 38, 2, p. 203-220 18 p.
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Pilgrim Knowledge: Travel and Empiricism in the Early Modern Holy Land

Pierre Belon’s singularity: Pilgrim fact in Renaissance natural history

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