The pilgrimage to the Sacred Places: Alcuin of York and the Saint-Amand Abbey
The article examines Alcuin's poetic cycle, written after the poet's visit to the monastery of Saint-Amand. Each of the poems is an imaginary stop on a pilgrim's way inside the monastery walls. Alcuin's poems help to conjecture how many churches there were in the monastery, to what architectural type they belonged. The dedications of the churches make it possible to reconstruct the “sacred space” of Saint-Amand, its “icon”.