This is a personal selection of books that have aided me in writing The Four Roads to Heaven. There are a great many others relating to the great pilgrimage of the Middle Ages, including numerous guide books to both the French pilgrim roads and to the Spanish camino. There are also many DVDs available, and these too can be found at many of the principal sites along the pilgrim roads, or in local bookshops.
Astbury, A., Pilgrimage (London, 2010)
Barraclough, G., The Crucible of Europe (London, 1975)
Bentley, J., Restless Bones: The Story of Relics (London, 1985)
Brooke, C.N.L., Europe in the Central Middle Ages (London, 1964)
--------The Structure of Mediaeval Society (London, 1974)
--------The Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages (New York, 2001)
Brooke, R and C., Popular Religion in the Middle Ages (London, 1984)
Brown, P., The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (London, 1981)
Chaucer, G., The Canterbury Tales (London, 1997)
Cowdrey, H.E.J., The Cluniacs and Gregorian Reform (Oxford, 1970)
Dunn, M. and Davidson. L.K., (ed.), The Pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages (New York and London, 2000)
Evans, J., Life in Mediaeval France (London, 1969)
--------Art in Mediaeval France (Oxford, 1969)
--------(ed.) The Flowering of the Middle Ages (London, 1966)
Fletcher, R.A., Saint James’s Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmirez of Santiago (Oxford, 1984)
Geary, P., Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (New York, 1978)
--------Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages (New York, 1994)
Gittlitz, D.M., The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook (New York, 2000)
Haskins, S., Mary Magdalene: Myth and Metaphor (London, 1993)
Huizinga, J., The Waning of the Middle Ages (London, 1967)
Jacobs, M., The Road to Santiago de Compostela (London, 1991)
Kendrick, T., Saint James in Spain (London, 1960)
Mâle, E., Religious Art from the 12th century in France (London. 1949)
Mullins, E., The Pilgrimage to Santiago (Oxford, 2001)
--------Cluny: In Search of God’s Lost Empire (Oxford and New York, 2006)
Pirenne, H., Mohammed and Charlemagne (London, 1939)
Porter, A.K., The Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads (New York, 1966)
Southern, R.W., The Making of the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1953)
Sumption, J., The Age of Pilgrimage (New York, 2003)
Trevor-Roper, H., The Rise of Christian Europe (London, 1966)
Ure, J., Pilgrimage: The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages (London, 2006)
Vieillard, J., Le Guide du Pélerin de Saint-Jacques en Compostelle (translation from the 12th-century Latin) (Macon, 1938)
Zarnecki, G, (with Grivot, D), Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autun (London, 1961)
--------The Monastic Achievement (London, 1972)