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PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY

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PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY

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This study examines pilgrimage through the concept of ascent, arguing that upward movement constitutes a foundational logic of Christian devotional travel across literary and ritual forms. Focusing on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and the pilgrimage to Sumela Monastery, the study proposes ascent as a comparative framework that explains how pilgrimage produces ethical, spiritual, and communal transformation. While Chaucer’s pilgrimage unfolds along a geographically level road, it achieves ascent through narrative sequence, moral hierarchy, and discursive regulation, culminating in penitential self-examination. By contrast, the pilgrimage to Sumela enacts ascent materially through vertical geography, bodily exertion, and sensory ritual encounter, embedding devotion within the physical experience of climbing toward a sacred site. Drawing on pilgrimage studies, ritual theory, and Byzantine art history, the article treats literature and ritual as semiotic systems that organize movement through graded intensity and disciplined progression. By placing narrative and ritual ascent in dialogue, the study demonstrates that pilgrimage is defined less by destination than by the structured process of upward movement that reorients participants toward transformation. The article thus advances ascent as a transferable analytical lens for the comparative study of pilgrimage across media, traditions, and historical contexts.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Kültür Sosyolojisi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

2 Mayıs 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

27 Şubat 2026

Kabul Tarihi

16 Mart 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 20 Sayı: 40

Kaynak Göster

APA
Yılmaz, T. (2026). PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY. Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi, 20(40), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.18220/kid.1942488
AMA
1.Yılmaz T. PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY. KİD. 2026;20(40):195-214. doi:10.18220/kid.1942488
Chicago
Yılmaz, Tuncer. 2026. “PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY”. Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi 20 (40): 195-214. https://doi.org/10.18220/kid.1942488.
EndNote
Yılmaz T (01 Mayıs 2026) PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY. Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi 20 40 195–214.
IEEE
[1]T. Yılmaz, “PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY”, KİD, c. 20, sy 40, ss. 195–214, May. 2026, doi: 10.18220/kid.1942488.
ISNAD
Yılmaz, Tuncer. “PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY”. Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi 20/40 (01 Mayıs 2026): 195-214. https://doi.org/10.18220/kid.1942488.
JAMA
1.Yılmaz T. PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY. KİD. 2026;20:195–214.
MLA
Yılmaz, Tuncer. “PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY”. Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi, c. 20, sy 40, Mayıs 2026, ss. 195-14, doi:10.18220/kid.1942488.
Vancouver
1.Tuncer Yılmaz. PILGRIMAGE AS ASCENT: NARRATIVE AND RITUAL MOVEMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES AND SUMELA MONASTERY. KİD. 01 Mayıs 2026;20(40):195-214. doi:10.18220/kid.1942488