Reisen nach Santiago de Compostela im Nordwesten Spaniens sind immer noch aktuell: als Wallfahrten ebenso als wie gehobene Urlaubsaktivität moderner Touristen. Gehen als Dialog mit der Schöpfung, wie Reinholt Messner sagt. Rolf Legler rekonstruiert akribisch genau die historischen Spuren, die nach Santiago führen. Und kommt zu sensationellen Ergebnissen. Könige, fromme Propagandisten, Kirchenmänner uns Regierungen bauten […]
Dr MacKay brings clarity to the medieval history of Spain by concentrating on two themes which provide the key to much of Spanish historical devlopment:”the frontier” from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; and “the preparation for Empire”during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Few truly masterly works in literature, music, and graphic arts have been as sadly neglectes as the thirteenth-century “Cantigas de Santa Maria”of king Alfonso X “El Sabio” (1221-1284). This collection of 420 poems and songs recounting miracles performed by the Virgin Mary was written not in Castillian but in Galician-Portuguese, an important spoken and literary […]
The history of the Iberian peninsula, from at least Roman times to the present, has been characterised by a tension between the radical and cultural diversity of its different regions and the attempts of successive rulers to impose a political and natinal unity upon it. From this conflict a distinctive Hispanic identity has emerged. In […]
