Networks of Hagiographic Imagination and the Camino

This essay proposes that the ‘pilgrimage’ roads of the Pilgrim’s Guide can be viewed as routes of hagiography, and that the main author of the Jacobus, ‘Calixtus’, was writing for a network of fellow authors. It builds on Christopher Hohler’s approach of 1972, which highlighted the rhetorical and ludic aspects of the texts, and, in that light, it examines the framework of the roads as presented on the first folio of the Guide. It re-imagines those roads as links between centers of hagiographic invention, some run by friends and others by rivals

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