{"id":776,"date":"2017-07-24T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:05:51","slug":"medieval-vacations-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/medieval-vacations-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage as a Medieval &#8220;Vacation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat did you do and see on your pilgrimage?\u201d This question was probably the medieval equivalent of \u201cWhat did you do on your vacation?\u201d If your curriculum includes history of the European Middle Ages, studying medieval pilgrimage can offer insight into the lives pre-industrial people as well as our own modern motivations for travel.<\/p>\n<h6>Mixed Motives of Pilgrims<\/h6>\n<p>Since pilgrimage is a journey to a religious shrine, we often assume that historical pilgrims had purely religious motivations. But most pilgrims also enjoyed seeing new places, meeting new people, and having new experiences. A twelfth-century French bishop commented on the mixed motives of pilgrims when he said \u201cSome light-minded and inquisitive persons went on pilgrimage to the holy places, not so much out of devotion as out of curiosity and love of novelty, that they might travel to unknown lands, and with great toil . . .might prove the stories which they had heard about the East.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199\" style=\"width: 113px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/book-1-primary-source-images\/figure-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-199 size-medium lazyload\" title=\"Medieval primary source pilgrimage\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/teachingwiththemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Figure-2.2-113x300.jpg?resize=113%2C300\" alt=\"St. James wears the distinctive clothing of a medieval pilgrim - a long tunic called a sclavein, a wooden staff, and scrip to carry his belongings at his waist. The broad brimmed hat turned up in the front, commonly depicted on pilgrims by the mid-thirteenth century, has a cockle shell badge, the symbol of his shrine. Bare feet were considered a type of penance, a self-punishment for one\u2019s sins. He is also carrying a knife and a book, not typical for a pilgrim. The book symbolizes James\u2019 status as an apostle; the knife symbolizes his role as Saint James, the Moor Slayer or may refer to the dangers on the pilgrim route. In the background, on the right, a pilgrim is being attacked. This painting is on the outside, left shutter of the three panel triptych entitled The Last Judgement painted in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/teachingwiththemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Figure-2.2.jpg?resize=113%2C300&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/teachingwiththemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Figure-2.2.jpg?resize=387%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 387w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/teachingwiththemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Figure-2.2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 113px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 113\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. James as a pilgrim by Hieronymus Bosch, circa 1450\u20131516. St. James wears the distinctive clothing of a medieval pilgrim.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Primary source texts and images give us clues about the motivation of medieval pilgrims. The pilgrims in Chaucer\u2019s <em>Canterbury Tales<\/em> met new people and entertained themselves with stories on the journey to the Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Crusaders, armed knights who took the pilgrim\u2019s vow to fight for Christianity in the Holy Land, were also inspired by the adventure, riches, and exotic sites and experiences in the East.<\/p>\n<p>Medieval pilgrims, just like modern tourists, purchased souvenirs and showed them off to their friends back home. The most common souvenir sold was the <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/medieval-pilgrimage-as-vacation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pilgrim\u2019s badge<\/a>. These small tokens, usually metal and stamped with the symbol of the saint, could be worn on the clothing of the pilgrim to show where he or she had visited.<\/p>\n<p>Modern tourists still make pilgrimages to religious and secular sites. The <em>Camino De Santiago<\/em>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/medieval-pilgrimage-as-vacation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">route to the Shrine of St. James<\/a> in northwestern Spain, was popular in the Middle Ages, and a popular destination today. An example of a secular \u00a0\u201cpilgrimages\u201d are trips to the birthplaces, homes, or graves of presidents or other well-known people from popular culture. Elvis Presley\u2019s home and grave site at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graceland.com\/news\/details\/graceland-celebrates-20-million-visitors\/8044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graceland<\/a> has been visited by over 20 million visitors since it opened in 1982.<\/p>\n<h6>Medieval Primary Sources<\/h6>\n<p>More ideas and primary sources for teaching about medieval pilgrimage see\u00a0Chapter 2 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/author\/cynthia-williams-resor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twelfth century quote above by Jacques De Vitry in <em>The History of Jerusalem A.D. 1190<\/em>, trans. Aubrey Stewart (London, UK: Palestine Pilgrims&#8217; Text Society, 1885), 90. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cu31924028534422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cu31924028534422<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Header Image:<\/em>\u00a0Medieval pilgrims from the Ghent Altarpiece (c. 1430s) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Note the pilgrim badges on the hat of the pilgrim on the left. The scallop shell was the symbol of St. James.\u00a0For more detailed images of this work see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat did you do and see on your pilgrimage?\u201d This question was probably the medieval equivalent of \u201cWhat did you do on your vacation?\u201d If your curriculum includes history of the European Middle Ages, studying medieval pilgrimage can offer insight into the lives pre-industrial people as well as our own modern motivations for travel. Mixed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/medieval-vacations-pilgrimage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pilgrimage as a Medieval &#8220;Vacation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,39,38,22,28],"tags":[40,41,42,15],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-daily-life","category-middle-ages","category-pilgrimage","category-primary-sources","category-vacation","tag-middle-ages-primary-sources","tag-pilgrimage","tag-teaching-middle-ages","tag-vacation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pilgrimage as a Medieval &quot;Vacation&quot; - Teaching with Themes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/teachingwiththemes.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/medieval-vacations-pilgrimage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pilgrimage as a Medieval &quot;Vacation&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhat did you do and see on your pilgrimage?\u201d This question was probably the medieval equivalent of \u201cWhat did you do on your vacation?\u201d If your curriculum includes history of the European Middle Ages, studying medieval pilgrimage can offer insight into the lives pre-industrial people as well as our own modern motivations for travel. 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