MELCZER William - The Pilgrim’s guide to Santiago de Compostela.

Année de parution: 1993
Langue: Anglais English en

(USA. New York, Italica Press. 1993) : traduction en anglais du livre V du Liber Sancti Jacobi ; commentaires, notes.

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  • Novembre 2009
    18:25     MELCZER William - The Pilgrim’s guide to Santiago de Compostela.
    par Bernard 64

    William Melczer’s book offers the first complete English translation of book v of the famous Liber Sancti Jacobi, a mid-twelfth-century ’collection of five compilations, actually books, on various subjects connected ... by a double unifying thread - the glorification of the Apostle St James the Major, and the French and particularly Carolingian contribution to that glorification’ (p. 28). The collection is preceded by an - inauthentic - epistolary preface attributed to Pope Calixtus II ; hence the title ’Codex Calixtinius’. The most important, and only ’complete’, copy is housed today in the library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.