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Rachman-Schrire, Yamit: Reading Allegory into the Landscape of the Holy Land: Sermons Integrated into Felix Fabri’s ‘Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae Arabiae, et Egypti peregrinationem’, in Bauer, Martin, Booth, Philip and Fischer, Susanna (Eds.): To Jerusalem and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 19), p. 209–222. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998.c15847

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Yamit Rachman-Schrire

Reading Allegory into the Landscape of the Holy Land

Sermons Integrated into Felix Fabri’s ‘Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae Arabiae, et Egypti peregrinationem’

Abstract This chapter deals with sermons integrated into the ‘Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, Arabiae et Egyp­ti peregrinationem’, a pilgrimage account composed by Dominican pilgrim and preacher Felix Fabri, based on his two pilgrimages to the Holy Land in the 1480s. Via a close analysis of the content and context of the sermons, I discuss Fabri’s employment of the landscape of the Holy Land as itself a subject for preaching, relating to two dis­tinct layers of interpretation he employs in his writings, the literal and the allegorical, to befit the needs of various audiences: pilgrims and monks. Thus, the chapter offers a window into the mutual and nuanced relationship be­tween the content of a sermon, the site where it was deliv­ered, and the implicit audiences, as they are reflected and re-established in Fabri’s text.