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'There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a
single road'So begins The Pilgrim's Guide, the world's first
guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine
monks, it served travellers taking part in the great pilgrimage of
the Middle Ages, to the tomb of the apostle St James, the cousin of
Christ, at Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. The four
roads are all in France: from Paris in the north; from Vezelay in
Burgundy; from Le Puy-en-Velay in the Massif Central; and from
Arles in Provence - all threading their way across the country
before joining as a single road in northern Spain. A step-by-step
account of these four journeys through medieval France, the Guide's
aim was to explain to pilgrims the religious sites they would see
on their way to Santiago, but it also offered advice on where to
stay, what to eat and drink, and how to avoid dishonest innkeepers
and murderous boatmen.Edwin Mullins follows the same four roads as
they exist today in the footsteps of those medieval travellers. He
explores the magnificent churches, abbeys and works of art which
are the proud legacy of the pilgrimage, as well as reconstructing a
turbulent period of history that encompassed wars, crusades and the
Reconquest of Spain. Many of the buildings and landmarks that
sprang up along the pilgrim routes still stand there today, and The
Four Roads to Heaven brings to life their historical, architectural
and spiritual significance. From imposing Romanesque and Gothic
cathedrals to humble pilgrims' hospices, this book looks at the
living legacy of one of the great social phenomena of the Middle
Ages - the pilgrimage to Santiago. Richly illustrated with Adam
Woolfitt's colour photographs, The Four Roads to Heaven offers an
invaluable guide - nine hundred years after its predecessor - to
the paths still trodden by increasing numbers of pilgrims.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to
the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the
first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it
resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next
seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And
depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of
heaven, or of hellopinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the
behaviour of the popes themselves.
Edwin Mullins has had a long and distinguished career as both an
arts journalist and a presenter of TV arts programmes. In Search of
Art is a collection of vividly told recollections of both his
extraordinary adventures, visiting famous artists, and the
discoveries he made when on assignments for indulgent newspaper
editors in the days of generous budgets. Blessed with a prodigious
memory, and fully armed with the notebooks and diaries he has
always kept, he has included in this collection of true stories,
some accounts which resemble very closely some of the situations in
which William Boot found himself in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.
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