Inscribing Pilgrimage - Martha García, Rachel Schmidt

Inscribing Pilgrimage uncovers the diverse, multilingual literary tradition surrounding the Camino de Santiago, one of the three most prominent routes of Christian pilgrimage, which guides travelers across Europe to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Focusing mainly on literature about pilgrims and their journeys, including references to visual art and music, the theoretical and methodological approach of the book links the historical construction of pilgrimage, as well as the action of journeying, to processes of writing and reading. Rachel Schmidt and Martha García examine permutations of the Camino in the medieval, early modern, and contemporary periods, tracing its origins in early Christian writings about pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome. Ranging from medieval literature written in Latin, Castilian, and Portuguese, to early modern Spanish texts by Cervantes and others, before concluding with considerations of the current revitalization of the Camino de Santiago, Inscribing Pilgrimage underscores the extent to which pilgrims who wrote about their journeys helped create ideas about pilgrimage, and vice versa. Journeying on a pilgrimage becomes, in turn, a model for writing, a means of promoting and imagining pilgrimage, and a form of plotting the act of writing. Schmidt and García highlight the ancient theological model of the pilgrim—depicted as a visitor and stranger in an unknown land—to demonstrate not only the creation of the homo viat
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