When the buds and showers of April appear, according to Geoffrey Chaucer, “thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages”. Dame Sarah Mullally is heading off a little earlier than Chaucer suggested, but ...

Sarah Mullally, set to become the Church of England's first female Archbishop of Canterbury, is undertaking a six-day pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. Walking the historic 'Becket Camino,' she ...

Since the Middle Ages, a great number of ancient roads throughout Europe have led to Santiago de Compostela (St. James of Compostela) — a shrine in Spain dedicated to St. James the Apostle and the ...

On the feast of St. Thomas Becket a former teacher has arrived in Canterbury, England, after re-enacting a remarkable 200-mile pilgrimage dressed only in medieval clothes, hauling a sack for his ...

The skeletal remains of about 50 medieval individuals have been discovered in shallow graves near the pilgrimage site of a famous seventh-century saint in England. The human remains, which have been ...

What little girl doesn’t dream of being a princess? At the Medieval Festival at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, she can be the princess and learn something about medieval art and culture.

"Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany," the first book to explore medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes, was published this month by Princeton University Press to much ...

A historian weighs in on how the medieval tradition can shape the days leading up to Easter. One of my pet peeves is receiving an email during the latter part of Lent with the sign-off “Happy Easter!” ...

Archaeologists are using over a million amateur finds to study pilgrimage sites, the Black Death, and the Protestant Reformation. Much has been written about religious life in the medieval era, but ...

Texas Early Music Project presents Medieval Pilgrimage in Iberia, featuring a company of 11 female singers exploring the music of pilgrimage in Medieval Spain. This music celebrates the richly ...