Emily Price, “Relic or Replica: The Holy Land as Authenticator in Early Modern Travel Writing,” in Sacri Monti and Beyond: Holy Land Simulacra and Monumental Stational Programs across Europe, c. 1400-1600, ed. Pamela A.V. Stewart and Achim Timmermann (Brepols, in progress).
This essay will explore how the physicality of the sacred sites of the Levant— their measurements, their position in the landscape, and their fabric— functioned to authenticate their European replicas.
Emily Price, “Building the New Nazareth: History and Sacred Space at an English Shrine,” in Visual Ecologies of Placemaking, ed. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela A.V. Stewart (Bloomsbury Academic, in press).
This essay examines the ways in which sacred and domestic space were constructed at the shrine of the Holy House of the Annunciation at Walsingham, Norfolk, by the Augustinian canons who controlled the shrine and by the pilgrims who visited it. It challenges prevalent understandings of the shrine at Walsingham, examining changes in the iconography of its souvenirs and alterations to its fabric to reveal how pilgrims drew on their experiences there to sacralize their own domestic spaces.
Emily Price, “Otherness and Englishness in Late-Mediaeval Pilgrimage Guides,” in Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities, ed. Colin Divall (Routledge, 2015), 113–24.
In this essay, I argue that guides to the Jerusalem pilgrimage by English authors, through their emphasis on how English bodies reacted to foreign foods and climates, served to reinforce a sense of proto-national identity in the people who read them at home.
Emily Price, “Hat,” “Scrip,” and “Staff,” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. Larissa J. Taylor (Brill, 2012).
These three entries detail the history, use, and spiritual resonance of the crucial elements of the medieval pilgrim’s traveling outfit, the hat, the scrip (bag), and the staff.