Video: Roland Lintel Saint-Pierre Angoulême An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 3:24 At the same time that the culture of pilgrimage was growing another, vernacular tradition developed. This was the oral storytelling known as the Chansons...
Video: The Roncevaux Pass An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 1:22 Roncevaux stood at a pivotal point on the pilgrimage road to Compostela both in spatial and also sacred terms. The story of the great battle which was fought there was told...
Charlemagne now received news that a certain giant, of the name of Ferracutus, of the race of Goliath, was come to Nájera The pilgrimage road passed through the Navarrese town of Nájera, where in the time of Charlemagne’s Spanish expedition, Roland had...
Forasmuch as you requested me to write in what manner the Emperor Charlemagne delivered Spain and Galicia from the yoke of the Saracens, you shall attain the knowledge of many memorable events The History of Charlemagne and Roland The Historia Turpini, also know as...
Afterwards, in descending from the summit, one finds the hospice and the church with the rock that Roland split with his sword Conques and Compostela formed an alliance early on. There has been much debate among medieval historians regarding the influence held...
