Title & Author:

The pilgrim's guide to Santiago de Compostela : a gazetteer / [edited and translated by] Annie Shaver-Crandell and Paula Gerson ; with the assistance of Alison Stones.

Publication:

London : Harvey Miller Publishers, ©1995.

Description:

421 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Series:

[Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history] ; [13]

Notes:
Series statement from the Brepols website, viewed June 30, 2016.
"A map showing the Pilgrim routes through France and Spain is reproduced on the end-papers"--Page [5].
"A map showing the Pilgrim routes through France and Spain is reproduced on the endpapers"--p. [5]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-409).
Contains an English translation of the original manuscript.
Translated from the Latin.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The 12th-century Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, the earliest account of the pilgrim routes through France and Northern Spain to the shrine of St. James, is such a text. Surviving in twelve copies, the text describes points of interest along the Routes, the relics of saints, and like all good travel guides, offers the medieval pilgrim details of where accommodation, good food and wines were to be found. Furthermore, the Guide comments on the customs and inhabitants of the different regions crossed, and describes the buildings and monuments encountered along the Routes. The present volume offers a new English translation of the Guide, from the original Latin, based on the Codex Calixtinus or Liber Sancti Jacobi kept in the Cathedral of Santiago. A unique Gazetteer accompanies this text, consisting of 730 entries, in which all the important towns, monuments and buildings (even those now lost) encountered by the 12th-century traveller are described and illustrated. This thoroughly researched, detailed catalogue of monuments, with its highly informative text and 580 illustrations, should prove to be an indispensable resource for the serious scholar of the art and architecture of the period. Moreover, the book will be of immense value to the modern traveller who wishes to follow the route to Santiago de Compostela with a 12th-century guide-book in hand.

ISBN:

1872501656
9781872501659
1872501931 (pbk.)
9781872501932 (pbk.)

Subject:

James, the Greater, Saint Cult.
Catedral de Santiago de Compostela.
Codex Calixtinus. Liber 5.
Codex Calixtinus.
Codex Calixtinus. Liber 05.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Spain Santiago de Compostela.
Christian shrines France.
Christian shrines Spain.
Sanctuaires chrétiens France.
Sanctuaires chrétiens Espagne.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Christian shrines.
Bedevaarten.
Bouwwerken.
Pilgrimsleder Frankrike.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Religious life and customs.
Spain Religious life and customs.
France Religious life and customs.
France.
Spain.
Spain Santiago de Compostela.
Santiago de Compostela guideböcker.
Travel

Added entries:

Shaver-Crandell, Annie.
Gerson, Paula Lieber.
Stones, Alison.
Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history ; 13.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89554
Call No.: ID BX2321.S3 S5; ID:95-B4664
Status: Available