BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4503-9a5e31c601fc8d818b9b87f8ba660086@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260503T074611Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220315T130000 SUMMARY:“Walk the Line: Pilgrims, Vagabonds, and Violence in Early Modern Spain” DESCRIPTION:\nAmanda Scott\, \;Assistant Professor of History\n\nIn this talk\, I consider the ways in which pilgrimage\, homelessness\, and poverty overlapped. We often think about early modern pilgrims as holy travelers\, traveling for religious and spiritual reasons\, but the real ity was far more complex: the pilgrim hospital network\, and the social support of traveling and living with other poor\, disabled\, and margina lized individuals\, attracted a wide range of people. Some briefly walke d as pilgrims until they found work or new homes\; others lived as pilgr ims for the long term\, moving from one pilgrim hospital to the next\, w ith no clear destination. The stress and tensions of this difficult peri patetic life understandably provoked conflict and violence. Drawing from the archives of Navarre and Aragon\, this talk gives voice to the unfor tunate pilgrims&mdash\;both victims and perpetrators&mdash\;whose travel s brought them not to holy sites but to courts and through their experie nces\, sheds light on how definitions pilgrim versus vagrant criminal we re largely a matter of chance and circumstance.\n\nFor more details: htt ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_rls-0315/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Amanda Scott,&n bsp;Assistant Professor of History

In this talk, I consider the wa ys in which pilgrimage, homelessness, and poverty overlapped. We often t hink about early modern pilgrims as holy travelers, traveling for religi ous and spiritual reasons, but the reality was far more complex: the pil grim hospital network, and the social support of traveling and living wi th other poor, disabled, and marginalized individuals, attracted a wide range of people. Some briefly walked as pilgrims until they found work o r new homes; others lived as pilgrims for the long term, moving from one pilgrim hospital to the next, with no clear destination. The stress and tensions of this difficult peripatetic life understandably provoked con flict and violence. Drawing from the archives of Navarre and Aragon, thi s talk gives voice to the unfortunate pilgrims—both victims and pe rpetrators—whose travels brought them not to holy sites but to cou rts and through their experiences, sheds light on how definitions pilgri m versus vagrant criminal were largely a matter of chance and circumstan ce.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_rls-0315/

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