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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=590375212-17072001>Carolyn & other interested
parties:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>I've
done some cursory checking, but don't have access to the articles that MAY have
the numbers you want:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>Ilja
Mieck, "Zur Wallfahrt nach Santiago de Compostela zwischen 1400-1650. [Resonanz,
Strukturwandel und Krise]" in Spanische Forschungen der Gorresgesellschaft.
Gesammelte Aufsatze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, 29 (1978): 483-533. OR in its
Galician translation: "A peregrinacion a Santiago de Compostela entre 1400 e
1650. Resonancia, transformacion de estructura e crise" in Seis ensaios sobre o
camino de Santiago, ed. Vicente Almazan (Vigo: Galaxia, 1992):
289-360.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=590375212-17072001> My notes indicate that this study
looked at the kinds of statistics available, and went on from
there.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>In
reading some of the basics (Vazquez de Parga, etc.) no one really goes out on a
limb to say how many pilgrims there were in any given year. Generally speaking
the pilgrimage grew and changed, from (relatively) little dissemination outside
of France in the 10th century, broadening in the 11th century with
pilgrims from Germany, Portugal, and increasing in the 13th century throughout
Europe (Sweden, Austria, Holland, England). The 14th century is by many
considered to be the apogee of the pilgrimage, as in the 15th century the nature
of the pilgrimage begins to change from a pious journey to an excuse to travel.
By the 16th century the effects of the Reformation are felt and the pilgrimage
declines drastically.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>We
have some better ideas about how many came from England because of the studies
of ship manifolds which list passengers and their destinations (those going to
La Coruna would probably carry pilgrims), although English pilgrims travelled
primarily by the land route from France through the 12th
century.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=590375212-17072001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>Among
the difficulties in knowing the numbers of pilgrims travelling the route
are the fact that during the middle ages the "great unwashed" were largely
ignored...if a king is travelling with his retinue, are the servants considered
pilgrims also?... how can we match up statistics of those who started out with
those who actually arrived, versus those who died en route, versus those who
left with no intention of actually going to Compostela...what percentage of
documents have been lost?... what percentage of folks travelled without
documenting their departure or their arrival?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=590375212-17072001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=590375212-17072001>Sorry
not to be of more help. If I find some of the general stats, I'll send them
on.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=590375212-17072001>Maryjane</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Road to Santiago Pilgrimage
[mailto:GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Carolyn
Wiggins<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 15, 2001 10:25 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Help,
please<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>We are
giving a little presentation on the camino at the retirement community
<BR>where my mother lives this week, and, in anticipation of this, would like
to <BR>ask if anyone can give us the number of pilgrims who walked the camino
in any <BR>one year's time during the middle ages. I know that there may
not be any <BR>statistics on this, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks, in
advance. Carolyn <BR>Wiggins</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>