sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
Mmmm ... Peter wrote:
Perhaps we are getting closer to the medieval pilgimage than we think! Nearly every book or article I've ever read on the medieval pilgrimage tells about the many rules and regulations covering almost every part of the individuals' pilgrimage.
If you were an English Jacobean pilgrim in the 1400's you would first have to get a licencia giving you permission to leave the country (a medieval passport); permission to take money out of the country (no silver was allowed to leave the country) a letter stating the purpose of your journey and the date of your return. The mode of your dress was proscribed to distinguish you from a common vagabond (long dark cloak, wide hat, staff, gourd and scrip); you would be told how to behave in foreign lands and, depending on your status, viewing of different relics would be restricted. The 'psuedo-guide' of Aimery Picaud stresses that the ideal for a pilgrim to St James is one of holy poverty and not luxury.
One thing I regret about 'The Camino' now as opposed to 20 years ago, when there were few pilgrims and no rules, is that it's become rather formulaic, bound up in spurious 'rules' about what 'pilgrims' should do and how they should think,
Perhaps we are getting closer to the medieval pilgimage than we think! Nearly every book or article I've ever read on the medieval pilgrimage tells about the many rules and regulations covering almost every part of the individuals' pilgrimage.
If you were an English Jacobean pilgrim in the 1400's you would first have to get a licencia giving you permission to leave the country (a medieval passport); permission to take money out of the country (no silver was allowed to leave the country) a letter stating the purpose of your journey and the date of your return. The mode of your dress was proscribed to distinguish you from a common vagabond (long dark cloak, wide hat, staff, gourd and scrip); you would be told how to behave in foreign lands and, depending on your status, viewing of different relics would be restricted. The 'psuedo-guide' of Aimery Picaud stresses that the ideal for a pilgrim to St James is one of holy poverty and not luxury.