Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

The Road from Paris

Chapter 1 Setting out

Chapter 2 Along the Loire

Chapter 3 A Brave New World

Chapter 4 Churches ‘more beautiful than before’

Chapter 5 Battles Long Ago

Chapter 6 To the Bad Lands… and the Good Lands

The Road from Vézelay

Chapter 7 The Magdalene and Sacred Theft

Chapter 8 The Broader Picture

Chapter 9 Cluny Triumphant

Chapter 10 On the ‘Miracle Trail’

The Road from Le Puy

Chapter 11 A Gift of Many Gods

Chapter 12 Golden Majesty

Chapter 13 Tall Tales and Wild Beasts

Chapter 14 Crosses on a Mountain top

The Road From Arles

Chapter 15 Roman Footprints

Chapter 16 Desert Songs

Chapter 17 A Cargo of Relics

Chapter 18 Into Spain

THE SPANISH ROAD

Chapter 19 The Way of St James… and Crowning Glory

Notes

Selected further reading