Women and pilgrimage in medieval Galicia

For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a clear risk of moral and religious perdition for women, and they were strongly discouraged from making them, except, of course, in the case of the virtuous 'extraordinary women', such as saints and queens.

This text represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence, while at the same time contributing to a critical assessment of the myth that medieval women were kept hidden away from the world.