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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela (Paperback)

by William Melczer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Italica Press (Sep 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0934977259
  • ISBN-13: 978-0934977258
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 364,583 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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2.0 out of 5 stars Fails to inspire, 30 Jun 2009
By R. Cook "eng'n'bats" (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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Having just returned from Santiago de Compostela I was looking for a serious book on the subject. Whilst the amount of research and background material used to produce this book must have been truly immense, I was disappointed with its execution. The author's style and language is, I feel, pretentious. He seems to want to impress his scholarly peers rather than impart clear, simply expressed information.

The book consists of 4 main sections -
Part I - Introduction - 70 pages of good background information with 10 separate pages of notes.
Part II - The English Translation of the Latin Codex - 50 fascinating pages covering the route of St. James with 82 separate pages of notes (comprising 609 notes!)
Hagiographical Register - this is an interesting who's-who of the Saints along the route of the camino.
Gazetteer - an alphabetical listing and description of all the geographical places mentioned in the text.

To read the book I had to use two book-marks simultaneously in order to read the text and the relevant notes.
I am glad I read it all but think 'tight' editing could improve it.
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