Author : Cecilia Weston-Baker
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781398426924
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Book Synopsis Sigeric and His Journey to Rome: The Via Francigena, 990 AD by : Cecilia Weston-Baker
Download or read book Sigeric and His Journey to Rome: The Via Francigena, 990 AD written by Cecilia Weston-Baker and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking long distance across a large part of Europe is quite daunting. You tell your friends you're going to walk from the southeastern-most tip of the UK across France, over the massive range of the Alps and down to Rome and they look at you as though you are crazy. But what would your friends have thought a thousand years ago? Rome must have seemed remote and the journey quite terrifying. Life now is very different from that of the described short, nasty and brutish tenth century. But was it so bad? This book follows two travellers as they set off from Canterbury on their journey to the eternal city of Rome. One is Archbishop Sigeric, who journeyed to Rome in AD 990 to collect the pallium that conferred the Pope's authority on him, and the other is now in the 21st century, a thousand years later treading in his footprints. Has the road changed much?