<p>The twelfth-century Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela is the earliest account of the pilgrim's route through France and Northern Spain to the shrine of St James. Surviving in twelve copies, the text describes points of interest along the routes and the relics of saints, and offers details of where travellers may find accomodation and good food and wine. This excellently produced volume gives a new English translation of the Guide, from the origianl Latin, based on the Codex Calixtinus or Liber Sancti Jacobi kept in the cathedral of Santiago. This is followed by an extensive gazetteer consisting of 730 entries, in which all the important towns, monuments, and buildings encountered by the 12th-century traveller are described and illustrated.</p>

The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela: A Gazetter (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 13)

Arts & Photography

Stones, Alison

Shaver-Crandell, Annie

History & Criticism

Harvey Miller Pub

The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela: A Gazetteer

Travel

Gerson, Paula Lieber

Europe

<p>Alison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris. She is a specialist in illuminated manuscripts, co-authoring Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes (1993) and The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, A Critical Edition (1998), and writing Le Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 16251) (1997), a devotional picture-book made for a lady of Mons. Professor Stones's articles are mostly on the illustration of French manuscripts, both sacred and profane. The present volume collects and updates Professor Stones's papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, one of her continuing passions. These essays explore aspects of the iconography of the romances of Chretien de Troyes in French verse, the lengthy Lancelot-Grail romance in French prose, and other versions of the chivalrous exploits of King Arthur's knights-the best-sellers of the Middle Ages. Illustrated copies of these romances survive in huge numbers from the early thirteenth century through the beginnings of print, and were read for their text and their pictures throughout the French-speaking world. Of special interest is the cultural context in which these popular works were made and disseminated, by scribes and artists whose work encompassed all kinds of books, for patrons whose collecting was wide-ranging, including secular books alongside works of liturgical and devotional interest.</p>

Studies in Arthurian Illustration

Pindar Press

Studies in Arthurian Illustration (2) (English and French Edition)

Pindar Pr

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