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European Medieval Pilgrimage Project -  Links
(work in progress)

English

Spartacus Education
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/NORpilgrimage.htm
Includes pages about important British pilgrimage sites including St. Winifred's Well, Lindisfarne, Glastonbury, Bromholm and St. Albans.

Virtual Pilgrims
http://crusades.boisestate.edu/vpilgrim/
These pages are intended for older students. The site enables the user to undertake a virtual pilgrimage from Pau in the south of France, to the Holy Land. It includes opportunities to visit towns along the way.

Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html
A detailed encyclopaedia of Medieval sources, including information about the lives of saints and theme of medieval pilgrimage

Websites about Spanish pilgrimage sites

Camino de Santiago
http://www.caminosantiago.com/web_ingles/index.htm
Undoubtedly one of the best web sites one can found on the Way to Santiago de Compostela (“El Camino de Santiago”). History, art, famous pilgrims… 

Pilgrimage to Ignatian Spain
http://www.jesuits.ca/development/pilgrimage.htm
Another Canadian Pilgrimage in this case to shrines related to St. Ignatius of Loyola. The founder of Jesuits was born in a Basque village in Spain and represented one of the main personalities of the Spain-backed Catholic Counter Reformation.

Biograhies of St. Ignatius Loyola
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639c.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3725/inigo.html

The Rocio Pilgrimage
http://www.andalucia.com/festival/rocio.htm
An originally religious pilgrimage that has turned into a crowded social party in Andalusia.

The Pilgrimage of El Rocio
By Martin O'Brien
http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_193.html
As this British journalist affirms “This is not just a religious festival: the Rocieros also come here to party”. 

The Pilgrimage to the Rocio
http://www.jochemwijnands.com/spec/rocio.htm
A selection of photographs.

Websites about Swedish Pilgrimage Sites

Vadstena, Sweden
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-78711/frameuk1.html 

Dutch

Algemeen (Nl/Eng)

http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/Bibliotheek/pagina/geschiedenis/internetbronnen.htm
Links site of the University of Utrecht. Many general links in Dutch as well as English

Bedevaarten

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/uitgeverij/extern/bin.html
In 1993 is het grootschalige en multidisciplinaire project Bedevaartplaatsen in Nederland (BiN) van start gegaan. Dit is hun website.

http://www.let.kun.nl/~k.boertjes/onderzoek.html
Research site by Katja Boertjes about Medieval Pilgrimage

http://digiboek.50megs.com/nlsinten/
Index of Catholic Saints

http://home2.pi.be/gmerckx1/welkom.htm
Hakendover ligt ten zuidoosten van Tienen op de grens van Haspengouw  en Hageland. Het dorp is vermaard omwille van zijn internationaal bekende paardenprocessie op paasmaandag. Jaarlijks komen voor die gelegenheid duizenden bedevaarders (vooral Nederlanders) naar Hakendover. Die bedevaart steunt op een middeleeuwse legende volgens dewelke God zelf zou hebben meegebouwd aan de parochiekerk.

http://www.jabikspaad.nl/frl/dorpen/hasselt.html
In de Middeleeuwen was Hasselt een bekende bedevaartsplaats

http://www.bisdombreda.nl/voorpagina.asp
Homepage Bisdom van Breda

http://www.the-artfile.com/nl/historie/middeleeuwen/pelgrims.htm
Algemeen artikel pelgrimstochten

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1557/art-bedevaarten.html
Kranteartikjel over bedevaarten.

Spanish

http://www.indexnet.santillana.es/rcs2/websantiago/index.htm

Swedish

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-78711/frameset1.html

http://www.sanctabirgitta.com/index.asp

 

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