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Travel and the Santiago Pilgrimage
Alison Stones
Art Historian, University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, November 15
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Rainey
Auditorium, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia
Event free and open to the public.
Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern tip of the Iberian Peninsula,
was third among the great pilgrimage sites of the Middle Ages, after
Jerusalem and Rome. The shrine's astonishing success as a magnet
for pilgrims grew from the efforts of the kings of Asturia, León,
and Castile and the bishops and archbishops of Santiago itself.
Art historian Alison Stones traces the origins and motives of these
pilgrims, the roads they traveled, and the cultural consequences
of their journeys.
Alison Stones teaches art history at the University of Pittsburgh.
For an illustrated bibliography of her work, check out her
website.
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Selected Reading
El
Camino de Santiago (private site with lots of useful links)
The
Pilgrim Route to Santiago
Select bibliography of works in English
On
the Road to Compostela
by Nancy Marie Brown
The
Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela:
A Gazetteer
by A Shaver-Crandell, Paula Lieber Gerson, and Alison Stones
Pilgrimage
to the End of the World
The Road to Santiago de Compostela, by Conrad Rudolph
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