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The charisma of distant places : travel and religion in the early Middle Ages / Courtney Luckhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luckhardt, Courtney, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- History.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--History--To 1500.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions identified religious travelers - both men and women - as holy, connected to the human and the divine across physical and spiritual distances. Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to reveal the diversity of religious travel, from the voluntary journeys of pilgrims to the forced travel of Christian slaves. Luckhardt offers new ways of understanding ideas about power, holiness, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages. By focusing on the religious dimensions of early medieval people and the regions they visited, this book addresses probing questions, including how and why medieval people communicated and connected with one another across boundaries, both geographical and imaginative"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Uncovering religious travel
- Practicalities of early medieval travel
- Contested space, sacred space in the Holy Land
- The pull of Rome
- Monastic migration and social motion
- Unfreedom and religious migrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Luckhardt, Courtney. Charisma of distant places
- ISBN:
- 9780367137359
- 0367137356
- OCLC:
- 1087853510
- Publisher Number:
- 99983561315
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