ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two types of women arguably most often represented along the Road to Santiago: the Virgin and the female sinner. They are two sides of the same coin, reflecting, on the one hand, the many devotional images linked to pilgrimage and, on the other, the graphical representation of Church attitudes towards women during the Middle Ages. Starting with the role of the Virgin, Prez de Tudela has approached the figure of Mary at the height of the middle Ages, concluding that she occupies a place of preference in the devotional hierarchy. The protagonist of this chapter is a woman, it is also necessary to return to the sources to discover what attitude the Church took towards the concept of the feminine condition. It refers to women and sin determines the special nature of feminine sin, Segura, El pecado. It focuses the present on the Road to Santiago and present feminine sin more clearly.
