- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Italica Press (Feb 8 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0934977259
- ISBN-13: 978-0934977258
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 540 g
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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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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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A readable translation with copious notes and background., Dec 22 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback)
Melczer offers an academic work that is a very readable translation of the twelfth century Book Five of the Codex Calixtinus, together with substantial backgound notes and explanatory material. This, in spite of its academic overtones, is not a difficult read. I found it to be a very useful starting point and historical information base for our proposed pilgrimage.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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The best book available about Santiago De Compostela, July 11 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback)
Melczer's book is a masterpiece. Anyone with an interest in Spain, the Middle Ages, or Santiago De Compostela simply must read this book! It is lively and highly readable, but it is underpinned by impeccable scholarship. It opens numerous windows on a forgotten world, and deserves the widest possible readership.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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An Excellent Book by an Excellent Scholar, Mar 14 2002
By Thomas V. Millington "Book Junkie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback)
I personally knew Mr. Melczer both as my instructor and later as a friend and I simply cannot say enough about this man. Studying in Spain with Mr. Melczer in 1990 I can say he truly opened my eyes to history, art and culture. I took copious notes, but I realized I could never fully "absorb" the knowledge that this man imparted to his students. He inspired me to enter the field I am in now.This book is an excellent presentation of one of the most remarkable journeys traversed by so many people throughout history. The research is excellent and the reading is very clear. This book is a must for any person interested in Spanish history
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