Pilgimage to the End of the World

Informationen zum Autor Conrad Rudolph is professor of medieval art and chair of the art history department at the University of California! Riverside. This is his fourth book. Klappentext Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain! Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela! one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place! Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary! the spiritual and the physical! in a book that is at once travel guide! literary work! historical study! and memoir. Zusammenfassung Art historian Conrad Rudolph follows the ancient pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. With anecdotes! travel tips and scholarly descriptions of medieval art! he offers a thoughtful guide to a remarkable journey across northern Spain one undertaken by thousands of pilgrims each year.

Product details

• Authors: Rudolph, Conrad Rudolph, Conrad (University of California at Riverside) Rudolph
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2004
• EAN: 9780226731278
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73127-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in; Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel; Culture Trails - Adventures in Travel (CHUP); Culture Trails - Adventures in Travel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe