ABSTRACT

With the exception of the Camiño and the lyric production of the thirteenth century, Galicia has sometimes been marginalized in international scholarship on medieval Iberia. Our aim in this special issue has therefore been to recenter it, while in the process decentering the pilgrimage route to Santiago as a singular prism for approaching the region’s medieval history, prioritizing alternative angles on the history and culture of northwestern Iberia. The articles presented here offer an antidote to the perception of Galicia as a quintessentially traditional, almost mythically “history-free” land, suggesting instead a society that, beyond the Camiño, was often characterized in the medieval period by cultural change and exchange, by invention and innovation, and by richly varied human landscapes.

摘要

除了 Camiño 和十三世纪的抒情作品外，加利西亚有时在中世纪伊比利亚的国际学术研究中被边缘化。因此，我们在本期特刊中的目标是重新定位它，同时将前往圣地亚哥的朝圣路线分散为研究该地区中世纪历史的独特棱镜，优先考虑伊比利亚西北部历史和文化的其他角度。这里介绍的文章为加利西亚作为典型的传统、几乎神话般的“无历史”土地的看法提供了一种解毒剂，相反，它暗示了一个在卡米尼奥以外的社会，在中世纪时期通常以文化变革和交流为特征，发明和创新，以及丰富多样的人文景观。