El Voyage d'Espangne de Guillaume Manier (1736) o la peregrinación jacobea como excusa

Abstract

«Guillaume Manier’s Voyage d’Espangne or the Pilgrimage to Compostela as a Pretext». This essay attempts to show that the pilgrimage to Compostela undertaken by Guillaume Manier in 1729, an adventure he described in his Voyage d’Espangne in 1736, was much more than a journey of religious faith. I argue that religion could be the pretext, also the justification, to fulfil Manier´s other pursuits, such as knowledge of other places and peoples, the desire to read and write, and the eagerness to offer the reader the teachings achieved in his own travelling experience. Manier includes in his narrative many different journeys, all of them source of wisdom: the physical and geographical journey itself, also, that of the soul in transit, a path made up of the acts of reading and writing and, eventually, our journey through life.