The Golden Bird

Literature & Fiction

Mullins, Edwin

Genre Fiction

Collins

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The Lands of the Sea

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Fifteenth-century painter Jan Van Eyck becomes a pawn in the hands of nefarious plotters in the court of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, but nonetheless manages to create a great masterwork, the Ghent altarpiece

The Master Painter

British & Irish

DOUBLEDAY

Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert / / General art / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 22 x 29 cm / 288 .pp /

The Arts of Britain

Phaidon

The art of Elisabeth Frink

Noyes Press

The Pilgrimage to Santiago (Lost and Found Series)

Travel

Europe

Interlink Pub Group Inc

Provence owes its name to Julius Caesar who described the region as the Province of Rome. Edwin Mullins seeks out hidden traces of that ancient world along with the many spectacular monuments that today adorn the cities of Nimes, Arles, Vienne, and Orange. He tells the story of how the Romans came to invade Provence, how they stayed to colonize it, and how they transformed Provencal cities into imitations of Rome. His narrative also tells how the Emperor Constantine brought about the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity from his favorite city of Arles and how the Romans were eventually driven out by the Visigoths. Roman Provence is also a guide to the principal sites in the region as well as those rarely visited, with separate chapters on various Roman achievements: triumphal arches, aqueducts, farming, city life, bridges and road-building, temples and shrines, theaters and amphitheaters.

The Roman Provence Guide (Interlink Guide)

History

Ancient Civilizations

INTERLINK+BOOKS

There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road. So begins The Pilgrims Guide, the worlds first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travelers taking part in the great pilgrimage of the Middle Ages, to the tomb of the apostle St. James, the cousin of Christ, at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. The four roads are all in France: from Paris in the north; from Vézelay in Burgundy; from Le Puy-en-Velay in the Massif Central; and from Arles in Provenceall threading their way across the country before joining as a single road in northern Spain. A step-by-step account of these four journeys through medieval France, the Guides aim was to explain to pilgrims the religious sites they would see on their way to Santiago, but it also offered advice on where to stay, what to eat and drink, and how to avoid dishonest innkeepers and murderous boatmen. Edwin Mullins follows the same four roads as they exist today in the footsteps of those medieval travelers. He explores the magnificent churches, abbeys, and works of art which are the proud legacy of the pilgrimage, as well as reconstructing a turbulent period of history that encompassed wars, crusades, and the re-conquest of Spain. Many of the buildings and landmarks that sprang up along the pilgrim routes still stand there today, and The Four Roads to Heaven brings to life their historical, architectural, and spiritual significance. From imposing Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals to humble pilgrims hospices, this book looks at the living legacy of one of the great social phenomena of the Middle Agesthe pilgrimage to Santiago. Richly illustrated with Adam Woolfitts color photographs, The Four Roads to Heaven offers an invaluable guidenine hundred years after its predecessorto the paths still trodden by increasing numbers of pilgrims.

The Four Roads to Heaven: France and the Santiago Pilgrimage

Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Pavilion Books Ltd.

The "Long Road to heaven", the annual pilgrimage to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela has taken place for over a thousand years. In the great cathedral of Santiago are said to lie the bones of St. James the Great, cousin to Christ, an original disciple and later "resurrected" as the slayer of the Moors. From the Middle Ages onwards, this most evocative of Christian shrines has attracted pilgrims to the Spanish city from all over Europe and further a field. A network of routes, lined with statues and other symbols, leads to Santiago, but the most celebrated is from Paris, across the Pyrenees and through the arid uplands of northern Spain.  Following in their footsteps, Edwin Mullins takes the pilgrim route, fascinated by its extraordinary historical and religious symbolism. Journeying by car and by foot, he retraces the path from the Rue St. Jacques in Paris to the baroque magnificence of Santiago's cathedral. On his way, he recounts the legends of Charlemagne, Roland and St. James himself, exploring the ideological dimension of the spiritual pilgrimage and the proliferation of religious orders around the route. He also looks at the pilgrims themselves, their motives and experiences, the millions of people "who walked the same journey - out of love, out of punishment, duty, fear, or out of simple blind faith".  First published in 1974 and now reissued with a new Preface, this classic account of one of Europe's most stirring journeys provides an amalgam of history and geography, religion and archaeology, fact and legend. Illustrated with line drawings, "The Pilgrimage to Santiago" is both a narrative account of the pilgrims' route and an analysis of a remarkably enduring religious phenomenon.

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

United States

Signal Books

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