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Article: Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain.(Review)
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- June 22, 2000
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Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. By Nancy Louise Frey. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 313. $17.95.)
The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela forged primary links among Europeans during the Middle Ages. Iconography, folklore, songs, tales, and the actual shared experience of the pilgrimage brought peoples together and left an indelible mark on medieval culture. The Santiago pilgrimage was also a source of inspiration for the European imagination for long periods. Like mounting Crusades to the Holy Land and building Gothic cathedrals, making the pilgrimage to the northern ...