Spenser Burcak- Different Kinds of Pilgrimages (12/3/10)

I do not think we talked about his in class, but I though it was interesting when I was looking through the first chapter in Turner's book. There was a brief description of the different kinds of pilgrimages, which I though was funny because I just thought there was only one kind of pilgrimage. The first two pilgrimages include, “on the authority of documentary or widespread traditional evidence”, and pilgrimages that have traces to old religious beliefs and symbols. The next type of pilgrimage are ones that “originate in Europe's Middle Ages and take their tone from the theological and philosophical emphases of that epoch. This type of pilgrimage would include the pilgrimage to Canterbury and Walsingham in Europe, also the pilgrimage to Chartres in France. The final type of pilgrimage that Turner explains is the pilgrimages that occurred after the Tridentin period of European Catholicism. When I first started this class, I thought that they only type of pilgrimage would be the first example that Turner gives. I would have never have guessed that there are three others.