Pilgrims and pilgrimages in the criticism of the Enlightenment: examples from Southern Germany
<p class="Formatvorlage5">For a long time pilgrimages, pilgrimage sites and pilgrims’ tracks have constituted an important subject in historical research concerning religiousness, the history of various regions and ethnography. New publications underline age-old research issues. Natu...
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Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Biuletyn Polskiej Misji Historycznej |
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| Online Access: | http://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma//index.php/BPMH/article/view/7861 |
| Summary: | <p class="Formatvorlage5">For a long time pilgrimages, pilgrimage sites and pilgrims’ tracks have constituted an important subject in historical research concerning religiousness, the history of various regions and ethnography. New publications underline age-old research issues. Naturally, the research concentrates on the period of individual pilgrimage centres being established and their development. Less research has been made in relation to the subsequent period of acute criticism and mockery in which representatives of the Enlightenment disdained relics and religious miracles. In the Early Modern period, pilgrims frequently became the target of legislators whose main aim was to fight vanity and beggary. The regulations from the period under discussion concern conflicts regarding the pilgrims’ beer licence for taverns and the reduction of the number of Catholic festivals and pilgrims’ festivals in the calendar year.</p><p class="Formatvorlage5" align="right">Translated by Agnieszka Chabros</p> |
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| ISSN: | 2083-7755 2391-792X |