La representación artística de la ciudad de Santiago. Leyendas y escrituras

Abstract

Experience and myth, legends and the most documented and meticulous observation constitute an apparently contradictory mixture, very characteristic of High Middle Ages’ knowledge. By crossing information from different documents of 11th and 12th centuries we approach to the image of the holly city made by those who visited it or heard about it. One of them is a graphic witness: Beato de Osma’s world map (1086); the other one, a well-known text: the Liber Peregrinationis by Aymeric Picaud, written in the middle of the following century; the third document is a huge one: the Roman cathedral then under construction, whose images will be used to check what Picaud describes.