... story when it comes to the part of the pilgrimage, its strangely coincidental that the characters who are suppose to be "good " religious characters stories' are based on scandal or violence. This was not uncommon due to the history of pilgrimage being that, "Pilgrimage, like almsgiving, had begun as an accessory to the moral teaching of the church and ended as ... an alternative. In extreme cases it could be regarded as a license to sin. " (Sumption 289) In the beginning, pilgrimages were made as a religious journey but because of so much corruption within the church and ... a woman l...

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