A lifetime of encounters with Spain.
Posted in Reflexiones en Español on Aug 23rd, 2007
La cultura contemporánea parece tender a la fantasía y la leyenda. Existe en la actualidad un gran interés por la leyenda del Santo Grial, El señor de los anillos de Tolkien, o Las crónicas de Narnia de C.S. Lewis y en estos días por el desenlace de la serie de Harry Potter La orden del [...]
Posted in Corners of Spain, Reflections on Spain on Aug 11th, 2007
Are these stories true? Could a stone ship sail across the Mediterranean? Was the body the shepherds found really that of St James or just another first century Roman? How could the soldiers have seen James riding out of heaven on a white horse? These are questions that we as benighted children of the scientific age ask. Certainly they would not have occurred to a medieval pilgrim. For him, life was a mystery.
