RT Book,_Section
T1 A Decade of Research: Travel Literature and the Artistic Heritage of the Way of St James
A1 Taín Guzmán, Miguel
K1 Patrimonio Histórico
K1 Literatura de viajes
K1 Camino de Santiago
AB Most of the towns, villages and monasteries located along the various historic Caminos that led pilgrims to the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela produced no medieval or early modern chronicles of their own. They lack the most basic written or graphic reports of their artistic and monumental possessions, despite the importance of those stopping points for international travellers since the ninth century. By contrast, there are abundant narratives composed by the pilgrims who travelled through those sites, documents which offer descriptions of buildings and artwork they saw along their paths. During the decade from 2009 to 2019 various governmental and research institutions have given us new critical editions of these travellers' accounts with varying sorts of detail for the study of the Camino's historical and artistic legacy. This study surveys some of the most interesting texts chronologically from the earliest reports until the twentieth century. From about 70 years ago, most travel narratives devolve into promotional copy for mere tourism.
PB Routledge
SN 978-1-032-30928-6
SN 978-1-032-30930-9
SN 978-1-003-30729-7
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32863
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32863
LA eng
NO Taín Guzmán, M. (2023). A Decade of Research: Travel Literature and the Artistic Heritage of the Way of St James. In: A.M. Pazos (ed.). Religious Pilgrimages in the Mediterranean World. Routledge (pp. 89-112). ISBN: 978-1-032-30928-6 (hbk);  ISBN: 978-1-032-30930-9 (pbk); ISBN: 978-1-003-30729-7 (ebk)
DS Minerva
RD 3 may 2026