 | The Pilgrim’s Guide to Compostela Subjects: Codex Calixtinus. Liber 5; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Spain -- Santiago de Compostela; Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela; Santiago de Compostela (Spain) -- Religious life and customs; Christian shrines -- France; Christian shrines-Spain; Spai; 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. The Medieval Christian world knew three major pilgrimage sites: Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Between the 11th and 13th centuries the pilgrimage to Santiago was by far the most popular, undertaken by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims year after year. This 12th-century guidebook traces the route from southern France to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. 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 includes extensive commentaries and notes that highlight historical, geographical, art-historical, hagiographic, and general cultural matters along the route traced by the Guide. This work has become the standard edition of this text for individuals, libraries and classroom reading. Illustrated, introduction, gazetteer, hagiographical register, bibliography, index. |
