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En torno a los orígenes del culto jacobeo

2018, Los caminos a Santiago en la Edad Media: Imágenes y leyendas jacobeas en territorio hispánico (siglos IX a XIII)

Abstract

A literary tradition linking St. James the Greater to the Iberian Peninsula was progressively developed from the Apostle’s martyrdom to the discovery of his tomb, in the beginning of the ninth century. In this work we pose the analysis of two stages in order to understand that evolution. The first one comprises the earliest mentions of an unidentified apostle of Christ in Hispania, and is connected with the sortes apostolicae: of a geography of evangelization which assigned the world’s regions to the different apostles with missionary purposes. This historical phenomenon was in a close relationship with the fight of the Catholic Church for unity and against heresy. During the second stage, St. James the Greater was identified as the protagonist of the Hispanic evangelization. This new process is related to political and ideological circumstances concerning mainly the Iberian space.