The Archaeology of Pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago De Compostela

This study uses theoretical perspectives of landscape phenomenology to consider the the experience of medieval pilrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, focusing on the journey itself, and the ways that the terrain was perceived by the pilgrims. It also examines the ways in which this devotional journey can be seen in the material record and how this relates to the landscape - how features such as rivers mountains and so on related to religious and ritual behaviour by the pilgrims. Three differing sections of the route are studied in depth, in Navarre, Burgos and Galicia.