{"id":1791,"date":"2012-03-10T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codexcalixtinus.es\/2012\/03\/10\/girberga-de-flandes-autora-del-codex-calixtinus\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:48:18","slug":"girberga-de-flandes-autora-del-codex-calixtinus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facsimil.club\/en\/girberga-de-flandes-autora-del-codex-calixtinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Girberga of Flanders: Author of the Codex Calixtinus?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is widely accepted by historians, both ancient and modern, that the Codex Calixtinus was not written by Pope Calixtus II. Researchers are also quite certain that the likely author of the manuscript was a French cleric who accompanied the renowned Pope on his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.<\/div>\n
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Not much is known about Aymeric Picaud due to the lack of written information that has survived to the present day, but we will dedicate another post to discussing this silent protagonist in more detail. What is emerging with great force, however, is a new theory championed by Carmen Pugliese, an Italian historian based in Spain. According to this theory, the possibility that the important flagship book of the Jacobean culture was written not by a man, but by one of the first, or rather, most important female pilgrims of the time, cannot be ruled out. This researcher argues that, especially in Book V (Liber Peregrinationis), a distinctly feminine perspective is evident, as it dwells more on details, mentions local cuisine, warns of dangers, and focuses more on architecture, among other things.<\/div>\n
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Not much is known about Girberga of Flanders today either; in fact, we've searched high and low online and it's nearly impossible to find reliable and verified information about this historical figure. The only known fact is that she accompanied Aymeric on the transfer of the Codex Calixtinus from the Vatican to its final location in Santiago de Compostela. As early as 1880, the newspaper El Gallego used an excerpt from Father Fidel Fita's translation in which our protagonist was named as accompanying him on this journey, as the following text indicates:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In another publication from 1947, the Revista de Archivos, bibliotecas y museos de la Biblioteca nacional de Espa\u00f1a, in a study published by Luis V\u00e1zquez de Parga, refers to our protagonist as Aymeric's "partner":<\/div>\n
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In short, we have little information and many conjectures that can be made. Girberga's figure is interesting enough to warrant countless theories about the importance of this historical figure who went completely unnoticed. Many questions remain unanswered, such as: what power did this woman possess to be so closely connected to monks, Popes, and other historical figures? How far-fetched is it to think that the Codex Calixtinus could have been written by a woman, in an era that Aymeric himself describes as dangerous and hostile? We will probably never know, but it certainly increases the sense that the Codex Calixtinus and the history surrounding it are shrouded in mystery and enigma.<\/div>\n
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Are you interested in the Codex Calixtinus?<\/strong> See the facsimile edition of the Iacobus Codex Calixtinus<\/a> and the Spanish translation of Book V<\/a> in the Club store.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Algo totalmente aceptado por los historiadores, tanto antiguos como modernos, es que el C\u00f3dice Calixtino no fue escrito por el Papa Calixto II. Los investigadores…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codice-calixtino","category-historia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t