SPN 4956 Then and Now: The Medieval Pilgrimage Route to Santiago

July 1-July 15, 2006 (new date)

Professor Shifra Armon

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Explore a medieval pilgrimage route through Northern Spain next summer with this two week, 3-credit travel-study course!

Join the tens of thousands of students, scholars and pilgrims who relive history each year by retracing the road that introduced troubadour love poetry, Gothic architecture and the cult of the Virgin Mary to Spain: the St. James Road or Camino de Santiago. We will begin amid the famous vineyards of in La Rioja, and travel westward by bus and on foot, stopping to visit monasteries, shrines, archaeological sites and cathedrals along the route. Our destination is Santiago de Compostela, where, the bones of St. James the Greater were miraculously “discovered” in the year 847 C.E., and which became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Europe from 1200-1600. Legend, superstition, faith and scientific method are just four of the many forms of knowing that this course examines.

The course is taught in English and is appropriate for non-majors and Spanish majors alike. All students with at least one year of College Spanish or the equivalent are invited to participate.

Already planning to spend Summer A 2006 abroad?

Extend your stay for two more weeks with the Pilgrimage Route to Santiago --and earn 3 additional UF credits!

Date

June 26-July 9, 2006.

Format

Two-week guided study tour in Spain led by UF Professor

Cost

$3299.

Academic Credit

3 Credit Hours

Contacts

Shifra Armon

Dept. Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Florida
241 Dauer Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Tel: (352) 392 2018 x 242
Fax: (352) 392 5679
sarmon@rll.ufl.edu

V. Esparza

International Center
University of Florida
23 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Tel: (352) 392-5323, x 507
Fax: (352) 392-5575
vesparza@ufic.ufl.edu

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Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Will Hasty, 263 Dauer Hall, 273-3780
Email: hasty@ufl.edu

Mary Watt, 301 Pugh Hall, 392-2422
Email: marywatt@ufl.edu