
Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela
William Melczer(Author)
Italica Press
Published on 1. February 2009
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-1-59910-415-7 (ISBN)
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 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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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59910-415-7 (9781599104157)
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WILLIAM MELCZER was, until his death in April 1995, Professor of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Syracuse University.His scholarly work includes three books on medieval art and Christian iconography, one volume on Columbus and his Book of Prophecies, and some fifty articles on the art history and the history of ideas of the Renaissance.For more than seven years, with his wife Elizabeth, he led the Syracuse University Traveling Seminar, "The Medieval Pilgrimage Routes from Southern France to Santiago de Compostela: Romanesque Art in the Making."