Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Guillaume de Digulleville, pèlerinage de Jhesu, poem
College
Humanities
Department
French and Italian
Abstract
Between the years of 1355 and 1358, Guillaume de Digulleville, a Cistercian monk from Châlis, wrote Le pèlerinage de l’âme, the second poem in a trilogy of allegorical pilgrimages. This poem, along with its predecessor Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine and its successor Le pèlerinage de Jhesu Christ proved to be one of the most popular literary works of the 14th and 15th centuries. Seventy-five known manuscripts exist which contain one or more poems from the trilogy, demonstrating that they circulated through England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and France. The trilogy was translated into English, Castilian, German, Italian, Dutch and Latin. Le pèlerinage de l’âme is rare in its explicit, extended, and detailed description of Purgatory, a realm which was not much represented in medieval texts even after the Second Lateran Council.
Recommended Citation
Larsen, Anna S. and Hurlbut, Dr. Jesse
(2013)
"Figuring the Text of Salvation: Text and Image in Guillaume de Digulleville’s Pèlerinage de l’âme,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 774.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/774