THE JOINING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS AN INTERACTIVE RESOURCE ON THE ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE OF THE MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE ROADS TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
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ESCHATOLOGY – CHANSONS DE GESTE – PILGRIMAGE
RECONQUISTA - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA – CULT OF THE SAINTS
MONASTICISM – ROMANESQUE
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Current Featured Pilgrimage Sites
Sainte-Foy-de-Conques – San Isidoro de Leòn - Oloron-Saint-Marie - Aulnay de Saintonge – Santo Domingo de Silos
The medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and the Romanesque World of western Europe in which it flourished during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It was a time of Pilgrimage and Crusade and the first revival of monumental stone sculpture since the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Romanesque is an art historical term defining a form of church building and associated art forms, most particularly monumental stone sculpture. In a broader sense it can be used to define a culture.
A time of the mass veneration of the Relics of the Saints. It was a time of anticipation of the End of the World. This was the greatest epoch of the most extraordinary pilgrimage of medieval Europe, to the shrine of the Apostle James at Compostela on the far northwestern tip of Spain. Considered at that time to be the End of the Earth.
Map of the Pilgrimage Roads
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As a retired professor of architectural history for the past years I have walked the length of the Camino Frances five times in awe and thanksgiving. In January 2010 I will begin my 6th camino at age 70.
Ultreia!