THE MEDIEVAL WORLD WAS HIGHLY CONSCIOUS OF A NOTION OF TIME WHICH TENDED TOWARDS AN END. NATURE AND SOCIETY WERE FOUNDED ON THIS PRINCIPLE AND MEN COULD ONLY PREPARE FOR THIS ULTIMATE EVENTUALITY
APOCALYPSE AND ESCHATOLOGY
The concept of eschatological time: The World Will End in 6000 Years
The Age of the World: The Gifts of Nature Have not Entirely Rotted Away
Pilgrimage and Apocalypse: Comets in the sky appeared and countless went in pilgrimage
Relics and the End of Time: We venerate the saints in their bodies or better in their relics
The Scallop Shell: It is not without reason that the pilgrims returning from the threshold of Saint James bear shells
Monasteries and the Feudal Order: There Are Those Who Pray
Compostela and the Mission of the Apostles: The End of the World
Constantine, Charlemagne and the Book of Daniel: As the knowledge of one God was imparted to all men, a single sovereign arose for the entire Roman empire and a deep peace took hold of all
Arab Invasion and Apocalypse: Beatus of Liebana
Iconography: Elders of the Apocalypse: Having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints
The Legend of the Last Roman Emperor: This will be the end and the consummation of the Empire of the Romans and the Christians
Oloron-Sainte-Marie: At the foot of the mountain on the Gascon side
MONASTICISM
THE MONASTIC SYSTEM WAS INTEGRAL TO MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH GREW UP AROUND IT. MONKS WERE GUARDIANS OF THE HOLY RELICS WHICH WERE THE GOAL OF THE PILGRIMAGES AND IT WAS THEY, ULTIMATELY, WHO DETERMINED THE NATURE OF ROMANESQUE ART WHICH ACCOMPANIED PILGRIMAGE
Monasteries and the Feudal Order: There are those who pray
The Benedictine Order and The Cluniac Reform: Then were innumerable sick folk healed in those conclaves of Holy men
Monastic Endowments: The riches of a man are the redemption of his soul
Cluny’s Foundation: In Cluny a regular monastery shall be constructed
Cluny and the Compostelan Pilgrimage: This book was written in various places, that is to say, in Rome, in the lands of Jerusalem, in France, in Italy, in Germany, in Frisia and mainly in Cluny.
Saint Pons de Thomières
Saint-Pierre de Maguelone
Saint-Gilles-du-Gard: The monastic order under the patronage of this abbot flourishes, a possessed man is delivered from the devil
San Juan de la Peña
La Charité-sur-Loire
RECONQUISTA
ORIGINALLY THE PILGRIMAGE ROAD TO COMPOSTELA DESCRIBED THE FRONTIER BETWEEN CHRISTIAN SPAIN AND MOORISH ANDALUSIA. ALTERNATING PERIODS OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC MILITARY ASCENDANCY FORM THE BACKDROP TO THE PILGRIMAGE WITH CONSEQUENCES WHICH WERE POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL
The Arab Invasion: The ruin of Spain and its many and great evils
The Arab Invasion: Weighed down by the quantity of their sins the Goths were put to flight
The Battle of Poitiers: Two comets appeared around the sun, striking terror into all who saw them. A swarm of Saracens ravaged Gaul with horrible slaughter
The Reconquistà: The Saracens themselves also predict, from certain portents and signs of the stars, that their destruction is approaching, and they say that the kingdom of the Goths is to be restored
The Chrismon:In this sign you shall conquer
Apocalyptic Prophecies: Beatus of Liebana
Matamoros : God has made me a soldier and a contender and sent me to fight for the Christians against the Saracens and to gain victory for them
Sacrifice of Isaac
Leòn San Isidoro: In the City of Leon there are to be venerated the relics of the blessed Isidore, who permeated the Hispanic nation with his doctrines and decorated the holy church with the flower of his writing
Leòn San Isidoro: He who lives and reigns for evermore may order that His Church be free from the yoke of the Ishmaelites
Frómista San Martín: The sixth proceeds from Burgos to Frómista
Saint Pons de Thomières
Santa Cruz de la Seros
San Juan de la Peña
Oloron-Sainte-Marie:At the foot of the mountain on the Gascon side
Legend of the Last Roman Emperor and the Prophecies of Daniel on the Pilgrimage Roads to Compostela
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