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Pilgrimage to Heresy

The Pilgrimage to Heresy blogspot takes a look at the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage and in particular the origins of the Cult of St. James in Spain. The author will be presenting ongoing research into her next book "Compostela" A must for Camino fans.
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The bishop rebels...

Nov 18, 2009
By 1080, the Roman Liturgy was beginning to replace the old Mozarabic (Visigothic) rite. The influence of the Order of Cluny was starting to change the way that people in Galicia would worship from henceforth. And not all welcomed this change. We are...

Diego Pelaez...

Nov 14, 2009
Ask most people connected with the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and they will say that it was the child of the first archbishop, Diego Gelmirez, and in many ways this was so. What you may not be told, however, is that it was Gelmirez’...

A bit more necessary history (bear with me!)...

Nov 8, 2009
In the early to mid-11th century, as if the threat from the Normans and Vikings was not enough, constant rivalry between the Kingdom of León and the Kingdom of Castilla opened rifts that could be (and were) exploited by outsiders, and so Sancho III...

Compostela: a sneak peak at my new book...!

Nov 1, 2009
Two timelines - the first year of the 21st century, and 1000 years before - a woman finds herself torn between her love, her research, and a powerful bishop's obsessions. Felix and Laura return to Santiago. Laura has a thesis to write and what place...

A bit more about the Moors...

Oct 30, 2009
The name of the Moors derives from the ancient Berber tribe of the Mauri and their kingdom, Mauretania, which became a Roman province after its last king Bocchus II willed it to Octavian in 33 BC. Mauretania lay in present day Morocco and Western...


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