Written documents about Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land have been known
since the Itinerarium burdigalense (fourth century). Since then, pilgrims’ travels have
never stopped, but the fall of Acre (1291) was a dramatic turning-point. This paper
aims to reconstruct the pilgrim’s life in partibus infidelium during the late mamluk
period (1291-1517): how pilgrims travelled, where they sleep, what they eat, when, how
and how long they visited churches and holy places
