Santiago el Mayor, taumaturgo: textos e imágenes medievales para sus milagros post mortem

To approach the iconography of the miracles of Saint James involves turning to textual sources, to observe the interaction between image and text. In the 12th century, the Liber Sancti Iacobi compiles, in Book II, the miracles performed by the Apostle on the roads to Santiago and in the saint’s own church in Compostela. The geography where the miracles take place is varied, and the protagonists belong to different social classes, although the privileged are the most important. This miraculous compendium was copied and inserted in various codices that have been studied from philological and cultural analyses. With regard to the History of Art, we propose to approach some of these miracles based on the images and the devotion to which they have been the object: which are the most represented, what aspects stand out and what are their main meanings according to their supports.