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Pilgrimage to the End of the World: the Road to Santiago de Compostela

By Rudolph , Conrad

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0226731251, 0226731278, 9780226731322, 0226731324, 9781283097642, 1283097648
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2646950 bytes)
Pages
145 pages\145
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Preface; Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages; The Pilgrimage to Santiago and to the End of the World; Views of the Journey; Doing the Pilgrimage; The Route; Getting There; What to Take; Suggested Reading; Organizations.;Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.

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