THE PILGRIMAGE TO COMPOSTELA IN THE MIDDLE AGES CouncilofEuropeSign Marking theRoadtoSantiago THE PILGRIMAGE TO COMPOSTELA IN THE MIDDLE AGES EDITED By MARYJANE DUNN LINDA KAy DAVIDSON ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK AND LONDON First paperbackedition published in 2000 by Routledge 270MadisonAve, NewYorkNY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2ParkSquare, MiltonPark, Abingdon,Oxon, OX144RN Routledge isan imprintofthe Taylor & Francis Group TransferredtoDigital Printing2009 Copyright © 1996 by Maryjane Dunn and Linda Kay Davidson Previouslypublishedinhardbackasvol. 1829intheGarlandReferenceLibraryoftheHumanities. All righrsreserved. Noparrofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilizedinanyformorby anyelecrronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopying andrecordingorinanyinformationstorageorrerrievalsysrem,withoutpermissioninwritingfrom the publishers. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages / edited by Maryjane Dunn and Linda Kay Davidson. p. em. Includes bibliographic references and indexes. ISBN 0-8153-1638-0 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-415-92895-8 (pbk.) 1. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages-Spain-Santiago de Compostela-History. 2. Europe-Church history-600-1500. 3. Christians pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. 4. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)-Church history. I. Dunn, Maryjane. II. Davidson, Linda Kay. BX2321.S3P55 1996 263'.0424611-dc20 97-24453 CIP Publisher's Note Thepublisherhas goneto greatlengthstoensurethe qualityofthisreprint butpointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsin the originalmaybeapparent. Contents ListofContributors vii ListofIllustrations IX ~f~ xi ThePilgrimagetoCompostela: TimeandPlace MaryjaneDunnandLindaKayDavidson Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: xxiii BibliographyofthePilgrimage: TheStateofthe Art MaryjaneDunnandLindaKayDavidson 1. TheCultofSaintsand DivinePatronage 3 inGallaeciabeforeSantiago AlbertoFerreiro 2. TheGeographyandHistoryofIberia 23 in theLiberSanctiJacobi Colin Smith 3. MusicandthePilgrimage 43 VincentCorrigan 4. 1494: Hieronymus Munzer,Compostela, 69 and theCodexCalixtinus JeanneE.KrochaIis v 5. ThePilgrimagetoSantiagodeCompostela 97 intheCantigasdeSantaMaria ConnieL. Scarborough 6. The IconographyofSt.Jamesin theIndianapolis 113 Museum'sFifteenth-CenturyAltarpiece DavidM.Gitlitz 7. ThePilgrim-Shell in Denmark 131 VicenteAlmazan 8. AMedievalPilgrimagetoSantiagodeCompostela 143 ontheInfonnationHighway John Dagenais Noteson the Contributors 153 WorksCited 157 Index 175 vi List of Contributors VICENTEALMAZAN ALBERTOFERREIRO ProfessorofSpanish ProfessorofHistory Emeritus SeattlePacificUniversity University ofWisconsin Seattle. WA 98119 Oshkosh. WI 54901 [email protected] VINCENTCORRIGAN DAVIDM.GITl1TZ AssociateProfessorofMusic ProfessorofHispanicStudies Bowling Green State University UniversityofRhodeIsland Bowling Green. OH43403 Kingston. RI 02881 vco"[email protected] [email protected] JOHNDAGENAIS JEANNEE.KROCHAUS ProfessorofSpanish AssociateProfessorofEnglish UniversityofCalifornia PennsylvaniaState University Los Angeles. CA 90095 New Kensington. PA 16802 [email protected] [email protected] UNDAKAYDAVIDSON CONNIEL.SCARBOROUGH InstructorofSpanish AssociateProfessorofSpanish UniversityofRhodeIsland UniversityofCincinnati Kingston. RI02881 Cincinnati. OH45221 [email protected] [email protected] MARYJANEDUNN COLINSMITH InstructorofSpanish ProfessorofSpanish Metropolitan Community College Emeritus Omaha.NE68103 Cambridge. UK CB3 OLL [email protected] vii