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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela

William Melczer
4.9/5 (10666 ratings)
Description: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; and 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela. To get started finding The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela

William Melczer
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: 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; and 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela. To get started finding The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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0934977259
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