Pilgrimage in Mediaeval Scotland

It would be a very glib, not to say trite, comment to point out that today our pilgrimages are made to Mammon and no longer to God (in most of the nominally Christian world at least). Probably we can never now get inside the mindsets of our ancestors to appreciate the importance in mediaeval life of the pilgrimage. The Holy Land was, of course, the ultimate destination of pilgrimage; in Europe Santiago de Compostela long rivalled Rome (Shaver‐Crandell et al., 1995); in the UK the major pilgrimage was to Canterbury, immortalised by Chaucer. But pilgrimages were big business to...