ABSTRACT
The academic works on the Camino have grown exponentially in the twenty-first century, in parallel with the increase of “pilgrims with walking sticks” and the proliferation of official grants. Magazines, groups and research consortiums have emerged, and old and new topics have been revisited, published and republished.
The same has happened with publications in the field of the recent history of the Camino since the nineteenth century, which has gone from being terra incognita to being practically exhausted, or almost. New archives have been explored, from Santiago de Compostela to the Vatican Archives and excellent monographs have been published, as well as many articles, blogs, online Encyclopaedias or e-books from the interesting to the irrelevant.
This chapter aims to clarify – and to define – the historical characteristics of the new academic studies published in the twenty-first century on the pilgrimage to Santiago in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to suggest – as clear as possibly – the lines of research during the last two decays.
