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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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"The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela" presents the first
complete English translation of Book Five of the Liber Sancti
Jacobi or Codex Calixtinus. This twelfth-century guidebook traces
the route from southern France to Santiago de Compostela in
northwestern Spain. The medieval Christian world knew three major
pilgrimage sites - Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela.
Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries Santiago de
Compostela was by far the most popular. Pilgrimage to Compostela
was a once-in-a-lifetime human adventure. Hundreds of thousands of
pilgrims came year after year through France and across the
Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela near the Atlantic shores of
Galicia. In his study of the road to Santiago, Professor William
Melczer discusses Relics and Pilgrimage The Origin of the Cult of
St. James Myth and Historical Reality The Iter Sancti Jacobi The
Liber Sancti Jacobi Pilgrimage without Ideology The Iconography of
St. James. This book also includes extensive commentaries and notes
that highlight historical, geographical, art-historical,
hagiographic, and general cultural matters along the route traced
by the Guide. Illustrated, introduction, gazetteer, hagiographical
register, bibliography, index.
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