Satisfy your medieval wanderlust: come for the travel adventures, stay for the martyrs, mummified corpses, and Holy Foreskin!
An advanced undergraduate seminar devoted to medieval pilgrimages, this course explores the spiritual and social functions of religious tourism. Why did medieval pilgrims flock to sacred shrines, retrace the steps of dead saints, and collect badges and souvenirs along the way?

Topics for discussion will include hagiography, holy matter, miracle cures, travel itineraries, and interfaith relations among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Seminars will be conducted workshop-style: learning will occur in the interactive process of reading and reasoning together about the material under discussion, debating our ideas around the seminar table.