ABSTRACT
The collection of essays Journeys Towards God: Pilgrimage and Crusade shows, as its title indicates, the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and its 'younger but close relation, crusade'. 1 It is particularly in reading the late J.G. Davies' article in this collection, which reminds us that crusaders were identified as pilgrims, with the crusades considered to be pilgrimages of the Cross, 2 that we are led to consider the nature of the self-chosen pseudonym, vieil pelerin, of the greatest crusade propagandist of the second half of the fourteenth century, Philippe de Mézières, and to examine whether his frequent use of the words 'pilgrim' and 'pilgrimage' contains the connotation of armed journey to Jerusalem, thus reflecting his unflagging enthusiasm for the idea of crusade.
