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Jacob Klingner, Felix Fabri, and the Interpretation of Imagined Pilgrimage
Abstract In this essay dedicated to the memory of Jacob Klingner, I discuss his work and address both the question of how late medieval enclosed nuns used pilgrimage accounts, as well as the methodological steps that best allow us to understand this particular historical phenomenon. I show that the Poor Clares of Pfullingen were far more likely to have read their vernacular adaptation of Felix Fabri’s Latin ‘Evagatorium’ pilgrimage account simply as such, rather than as an imagined pilgrimage, as other studies have argued. I also demonstrate that this over-interpretation of pilgrimage accounts as imagined pilgrimage can be avoided by comparing the texts in question with multiple pilgrimage works for a wide range of attributes.
