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    Life-size Bronze Statues

    I actually love them… they remind me of very early Gothic exaggerated/elongated representations.
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    Acogida Tradicional Jacobea receives official protection

    Oh! I’m delighted to hear this news and will read the longer material tomorrow. I’ve been arguing the concept for about 2 years now as an external observer so am pleased to see that my observation: that hospitality is an intrinsic feature of the patrimony of Spain *because of* and specifically...
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    How many pilgrims walked Camino de Santiago in the Middle Ages, Medieval times? Was it really 500 000 per year?

    You’d be surprised! Although women often died as a result of having children too early (when it is more dangerous to an immature anatomy) or repeatedly, thus having dangerous complications prior to age 35…. And men died frequently enough from injuries sustained in labour or in war, very elderly...
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    How many pilgrims walked Camino de Santiago in the Middle Ages, Medieval times? Was it really 500 000 per year?

    I can… just need a few days to get back to my office and have a look. Please remind me if I’ve not done it by this time next week!
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    New book on the history of food and drink on the Camino: ‘Pucheros y zurrones. Gastronomía en el Camino de Santiago’

    Thank you! As my plans for archive work are coming together for early summer in Santiago, maybe I can have it shipped to the San Martin Pinario for me! So brilliant. Cheers.
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    New book on the history of food and drink on the Camino: ‘Pucheros y zurrones. Gastronomía en el Camino de Santiago’

    I need this!! (Seriously… I’ve been looking for something like this for about 5 years). I’ve found several sites promoting th book, but have not found any means of purchasing online. Anyone know if/where I could order it online? Is there a specialty bookstore in Santiago, for example, that...
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    Was Europe made on the Camino?

    On this point, no, they did not. For several hundred years after the 5th C "fall of Rome" the medievals still -- mostly -- thought of themselves as "Roman". They spoke whatever regional vulgar Latin their forebears had, followed the Roman calendar, followed the feast days and so forth...
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    Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago

    The short answer is that one ought to avoid pronouncing on the research and methods outside one’s area of expertise. A second very broad point is that the administrative houses of disciplines has almost nothing to do with the division of arts and sciences. How psychology sits in medicine in...
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    Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago

    Did you just declare an entire scientific field invalid? That’s a pretty sweeping claim without the evidence to support the view. Yes, the use of the scallop shell is a “truism”, but that truism comes from so many sources at this point that within the field one would look quite silly repeatedly...
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    Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago

    The desire to separate people into the pure and the impure? See Mary Douglas 1966 _Purity and Danger_. But do we have any indication that people making pilgrimages thought to categorise people as either tourists OR pilgrims but not both? NO... not until far more very deliberate separations of...
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    Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago

    Thanks for posting this... have just been reading more in the anthropology of pilgrimage and returned to Turner and Turner (1974) to find that one source for the estimate for how many people made pilgrimage to any of the great sites in the medieval period rests on tchotchkes buried with them...
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    Relocation to Spain - Culture shock?

    :) I hope it was a very rewarding career!
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    Relocation to Spain - Culture shock?

    And now I’m terribly curious about the research… Kinesiology?
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    Relocate to Spain after 65

    I have a friend in that situation, and he married an American who lives in Canada. He was born in the States while his father was in medical residency… now he’s in a massive problem around taxation (having not lived in the US since he was a newborn). So… in addition to not taking up residency...
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    Relocation to Spain - Culture shock?

    As someone who presumably had to arrange to move money from Canada to Spain, is there a bank that you recommend? (My bank for some 40 years now has been TD-CT, from the time when it was only CT…), and I have some secondary dealings with BMO. I don’t know for certain if those details matter...
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    Relocation to Spain - Culture shock?

    Culture shock is inevitable. Some people enjoy it (I do — very much!), and some people hate it or are offended in their experience of difference. Some are both disgusted and offended… knowing yourself how you will respond to difference is likely to be crucial information. I would guess that...
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    Relocate to Spain after 65

    Well, then it might be something to look into. It was not that long ago when step-brother renounced his Canadian to become a US citizen. And more recently that his kids found they could not seek Canadian without giving up American. I have a pile of cousins by marriage in that boat too. Maybe...
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    Relocate to Spain after 65

    Unless your parents born in another country were still granted Irish citizenship by birth as noted in the foreign registry. For those in the USA, it would not apply because the American government does not allow an American born citizen to hold a second citizenship (my step-nieces both tried to...
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    Relocate to Spain after 65

    I’m not worried about the citizenship part. I’ll need the correct documents to reside in Spain as an EU National, but for me the whole relocation process is easier on account of that. Mostly I’m just curious and figure that asking the questions will benefit others looking at the thread. I’m...
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    Relocate to Spain after 65

    Are you going to stay year-round? i.e., are you aiming for residency? I am curious because I gather that although the people I know with the lovely B&B have the ‘golden ticket’ business property, when I was staying with them, they told me that they were trying to learn Portuguese to acquire...

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