Abstract
Rodney Aist (Course Director, St. George’s College, Jerusalem) has written an insightful book about Jerusalem pilgrim texts with a focus on three interrelated texts in the genre: Eucherius’s Letter to Faustus, Adomnán’s De locis sanctis (Adls), and Bede’s De locis sanctis (Bdls). All three pilgrim texts were written at a distance from Jerusalem itself. The writers synthesized their works from secondary sources in their home countries of France, Ireland (Iona), and England (Wearmouth and Jarrow, Northumbria) respectively. The parameters of Aist’s study are clearly set forth in the introduction: