{"product_id":"virtual-pilgrimages-in-the-convent-kate-rudy-9782503541037","title":"Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages","description":"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Rudy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 2503541038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782503541037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brepols Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.60h x 8.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Kate Rudy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066312339711,"sku":"9782503541037","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44847a5d-7edf-46d8-9877-11e3af16859e.jpg?v=1768678108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/virtual-pilgrimages-in-the-convent-kate-rudy-9782503541037","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}