The Miracles and Translatio of Saint James
Books Two and Three of the Liber Sancti Jacobi
The pilgrimage route to Compostela is graced with an exceptional witness from its early days: the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Book of Saint James. This book is found most famously in a twelfth-century manuscript from the library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as well as in various other manuscripts. The text provides an encyclopedia on Saint James the Great and on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the traditional site of his burial in Galicia in northwestern Spain.Of the five books included in the manuscript, Books 2 and 3, published here in English translation, deal directly with the cult surrounding Saint James. In twenty-tw…
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Weitere Autoren: Dunn, Maryjane
- ISBN: 978-1-59910-324-2
- EAN: 9781599103242
- Produktnummer: 29007392
- Verlag: Italica Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 316 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 316
Über den Autor
Thomas F. Coffey holds a B.A. in French and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Romance Philology, with German, Greek, and Spanish as support languages. He taught various levels of French, German, and Spanish at Creighton University in Nebraska, and English and French in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He has published in English, French, and Latin and has worked extensively on medieval texts in the areas of rhetoric, French history, and the Inquisition.
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