''Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme'' (English: ''The Pilgrimage of the Soul'') is a fourteenth-century

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

written in

Old French Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligib ...

Guillaume de Deguileville Guillaume de Deguileville (1295 - before 1358) was a French Cistercian and writer. His authorship is shown by one acrostic in ''Le Pèlerinage de la Vie Humaine'', two in '' Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme'', and one in ''Le Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist''. ...

. A modern edition was published by the Roxburghe Club as ''Le Pèlerinage de l’Ame de Guillaume de Deguileville'', edited by J. J. Stürzinger (London: Nichols and Sons, 1895). A fifteenth-century English translation, ''

The Pilgrimage of the Soul ''The Pilgrimage of the Soul'' or ''The Pylgremage of the Sowle'' was a late medieval work in English, combining prose and lyric verse, translated from Guillaume de Deguileville's Old French '' Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme''. It circulated in manus ...

'', circulated in manuscript in late-medieval England and was among the works printed by

William Caxton William Caxton ( – ) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer (publisher), printer to be the first English retailer of printed boo ...

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* Jakob J. Stürzinger, ed., ''Le Pèlerinage de l’Ame de Guillaume de Deguileville'' (London: Nichols and Sons, 1895). {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelerinage de l'Ame Old French texts Christian literature Medieval French literature

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