Good luck with the dissertation! Don't forget that pilgrimages like this always involved a mixture of motivations, often within the same person as well as among pilgrims. Think of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales! In addition to enabling pilgrims to do reparation for their sins, venerate St. James...
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