The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland, and Chaucer

The Author: Julia Bolton Holloway taught Medieval Studies at Princeton University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, after her 1974 University of California, Berkeley, doctorate. She has published three books on Brunetto Latino, Dante's teacher, two books on St. Birgitta of Sweden, the pilgrim and writer who influenced Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, and has co-edited with Constance Wrigth two volumes of essays, Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages and Tales within Tales: Apuleius through Time. She lived as a child on the pilgrimage road to Canterbury, has traveled as a pilgrim to Walsingham, Compostela, Rome and Jerusalem, and has now returned to England, to the Community of the Holy Family, Holmhurst St. Mary, St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.