Bachibouzouk
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Voie de Soulac, Frances, De La Plata, Sureste/Levante, Manchego, Ruta del Argar.
This book by Katherine Lack landed on my doormat last week. I ordered it having found her Frontstalag 142, The Internment Diary of an English Lady fascinating, not least because my grandmother and aunt must have been interned with Fanny Twemlow both in the Vauban fort at Besancon and in Vittel in Occupied France during the Second World War.
From the back cover of Cockleshell Pilgrim:
'In 1986, the remains of a man dressed as a pilgrim, complete with boots, a staff and a cockleshell, were accidentally uncovered in Worcester Cathedral. Who was he? Why had he been accorded burial in this place? What do his grave-goods mean? We can never know for sure, but sufficient evidence exists to suggest that the man was Robert Sutton, a wealthy dyer, and that he had been on a long pilgrimage to Compostela.
Using a whole range of resources, Katherine Lack vividly brings to life Sutton's journey across war-torn and plague-ridden medieval Europe to the tomb of St James. Her exhilarating book will be of value not only to those concerned with medieval spirituality, but to the great number of people drawn to pilgrimages old and new.'
I'm saving it for my own pilgrimage next month.
From the back cover of Cockleshell Pilgrim:
'In 1986, the remains of a man dressed as a pilgrim, complete with boots, a staff and a cockleshell, were accidentally uncovered in Worcester Cathedral. Who was he? Why had he been accorded burial in this place? What do his grave-goods mean? We can never know for sure, but sufficient evidence exists to suggest that the man was Robert Sutton, a wealthy dyer, and that he had been on a long pilgrimage to Compostela.
Using a whole range of resources, Katherine Lack vividly brings to life Sutton's journey across war-torn and plague-ridden medieval Europe to the tomb of St James. Her exhilarating book will be of value not only to those concerned with medieval spirituality, but to the great number of people drawn to pilgrimages old and new.'
I'm saving it for my own pilgrimage next month.
