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Between us and the medieval men and women who went on pilgrimage there stand many impediments to understanding: the Reformation, the Enlightenment, secularisation.
This lecture will explore how tracing ancient routes on foot, and experiencing travel as people did in an age before trains and cars, can offer insights into the past. But is the sense of being accompanied by ghosts a delusion?
Tom Holland will draw on experiences of reading Chaucer and undertaking pilgrimages during and after the pandemic.
This lecture was recorded by Tom Holland on 7 October 2023 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/pilgrimages-holland
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7 Comments
Gresham strikes AGAIN! Superb lecture, and for free!
Sorry, but this persistent image of Boris Johnson has just totally turned me off Tom Holland
there's an extra twist to the gold under the tree , one of the 2 left one kills the other and then the survivor
drinks the wine
Sorry Gresham. I just can't listen to this twaddle any longer.
… as a German Biologist –
Amazing how many regulatory ways Nature has –
to maintain Equi Librium
When we get too dense in population
and too fast in reproduction
and synthetic Techno Sphere
We are the best reservoir
for all sorts of Parasites thriving on us
As the last global Pan Demic shows
Which is by far not ended
The chain reactions of drastic Over regulations
provoke ever more self destructive actions
39 Year Total Wars and nuclear devastation
After Self Titanick
New forms of Life emerge
Da capo
this is the Structure of the Cosmos –
Me thinks he touched a nerve.
Really enjoyable and informative