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Awesome question!
I dont have the answer but I`ll be watching the thread as I have also interest in books about history of all Caminos. I have special interest in knowing more about the history of the camino de santiago before Santiago even existed. Well... At least I hear tons of this stories whilst walking during my camino trips: That some of the routes and their historic meanings go way before catholic church "stole" pagan traditions and redesigned as their own.
(not my opinion... Just things I heard about and would love to read studies about it)
Buen Camino Everyone!
I have read several of Paulo Coelho's novels and the one called "The Pilgrimage" I found an enjoyable read. It has turns and twists with some mysticism. Coelho has walked the Camino.
According to the book he didn't finish but stopped after he was 'accepted'.I have read several of Paulo Coelho's novels and the one called "The Pilgrimage" I found an enjoyable read. It has turns and twists with some mysticism. Coelho has walked the Camino.
Well excuse the unashamed plug but my own book has a good section on the history of the camino, well my readers tell me it is good. Its available on amazon at the minute at the discounted price of £0.99/$1.43 for the kindle edition for a few days yet. The title is in my signatureHi everybody!
With 1,5 week to go I have my gear ready, I'm fit, a little bit nervous but very exited! There's one more thing I can't decide about. It's a bit silly actually...
I like to read books about the country I'm traveling in. Preferably about history in order to understand a country a little bit better. But I can't find any book about the Camino and it's history. What I did find were a lot of books about present day pilgrims. But on my Camino I'm not interested in the soul searching of a writer. That would be too confusing to me. Or books about the Camino history with an academic approach.
Does anybody know a novel about the Camino that takes place in the medievals? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks and buen Camino!
This thread was specifically requesting info on pre-Christian "pilgrimage routes".
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/looking-for-pre-christian-camino-books.19765/
Like you I am still looking for any primary source documents rather than "what everyone knows". The earliest record of a pilgrim site in the area of Compostela seems to be that of a shrine to "The Martyrs of Trier" - Priscillian and his companions, dating to the late 4th C.
If anyone has any idea of where to find any Celtic / pre-Celtic information it would be gratefully received
Reading for the Camino, I found "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett has much information and background to modern Spain, including the long struggle of the Spanish people to come to terms with the Civil War and its aftermath.
Blessings on your Camino
Tio Tel
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