Two main bodies of evidence have created our idea of the camino, the pilgrimage roads that lead to Santiago de Compostela: a group of churches (Sainte-Foy at Conques, Saint-Sernin at Toulouse, the cathedral at Compostela; together with the lost buildings of Saint-Martin at Tours and Saint-Martial at Limoges), and the ‘Pilgrim’s Guide’ written in a twelfth-century manuscript. This talk will cover both themes and their interaction. One important question concerns the movement of masons and sculptors between sites and the contracts that ensured their attachment to the projects.
Dr Rose Walker is a specialist in the art and architecture of medieval Spain. She has published two books: Views of Transition. Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain (1998) and Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths (2016), as well as several articles on manuscripts, sculpture, wall-paintings and the sumptuary arts. From 2018 to 2020 she held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for a project on the art of mid-twelfth-century Iberia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld, where she taught during the academic year 2022/23.
