Non solo per fede. Pellegrinaggi “imposti” alla tomba dell’Apostolo Giacomo

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Lorenza Vantaggiato¹ 

[1] Università degli Studi de Lecce;

关键词: “compulsory” pilgrimage;    santiago de compostela;    amendment;    city states;    penitence;   

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【 摘 要 】

The “compulsory” pilgrimage or judicial pilgrimage is a revealing sign of a new culture which is beginning to assert itself with the success of a manufacturing and market economy, able to adapt itself to this new path categories and models belonging to the the High Middle Ages, to a world which during the 6th century attests to the adoption on the Continent of an essential component of medieval Irish and Anglo-Saxon communities, which is to say, the idea of penitence. In this way, with the aim of understanding more clearly the evolution of the ‘compulsory’ pilgrimage, it might be useful to refer to the general aspects of judicial pilgrimage as an experiment and a form of personal growth. Special attention has been paid to the introduction of ‘compulsory’ pilgrimages within the context of city states (Liège and Maastricht) where it was used as a sanction imposed on citizens guilty of certain criminal acts. That these same citizens should keep the peace was an essential condition for the well-being and the development of the community at large, and thus pilgrimage came to be used as a kind of compensation for serious offences or crimes that went against the peace and the equilibrium of the community. When analyzing these documents certain elements and characteristics particular to compulsory pilgrimage may be discerned, as well as the relation between crime and punishment which, nonetheless, has not been identified within the general context of social custom. From the beginning of the 11th century the ‘geography of pilgrimages’ began to undergo substantial changes. The obstacles and difficulties in reaching Jerusalem, the extinction of states by the crusades in 1291, resulted in many pilgrims seeking places that could more easily be reached, like Rome and the sanctuary of Santiago in Galicia. Using valuable sources such as city statutes and sentences from magistrates’ courts it has been possible to examine some concrete cases where enforced pilgrimage to Santiago was applied as an amendment

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