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Pilgrims in place, pilgrims in motion : sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen.
Van Pelt Library BL619.P5 P543 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 15.
- Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity, 1399-2686 ; XV
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean
- Place of Publication:
- [Aarhus] : Aarhus University Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part I : Methodological dialogues on pilgrimage
- Place and motion in the study of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage / Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen
- Getting there : reframing pilgrimage from process to site / David Frankfurter
- The uses of comparison in pilgrimage studies / Ian Rutherford
- Part II: Pilgrims, place and motion: case studies
- Disorderly pilgrims at the oracular sanctuary of Apollo Koropaios / Matthew Dillon
- The emperor as a place of pilgrimage / Panayiotis Christoforou
- Virtual pilgrim? Unchosen mobility and religious place-making in the Roman army / Anna Collar
- Thieving pilgrims between Rome and the Middle Ages / Isabel Koster
- Failed connectivities: Paul's Collection and his final pilgrimage to Jerusalem / Matthew R. Anderson
- Pilgrims, piety and pragmatism : Roman sanctuaries and Late Antique churches in the Cyclades / Rebecca Sweetman
- The rites of the (late) ancient mariners : professional and casual sailors as Christian pilgrims in the Late Antique Mediterranean / Ameria R. Brown
- Jerusalem mythologies: pilgrims and the Dome of the Rock: Naser-e Khosraw's reflections on Jerusalem from his Book of Travels, the Safarnama / Naomi Koltun-Fromm
- Jerusalem agents: Armenian and Georgian pilgrimage to Byzantine Palestine / Yana Tchekhanovets
- The stratification of memory in the Dardanelles: from Trojan War to First World War pilgrimage in the region / Sarah Midford
- Part III. Concluding responses
- Pilgrimage: an unruly method? / Simon Coleman
- Sacred Travel and transformation beyond the "Heroic Quest" paradigm / Elisa Uusimaki.
- Notes:
- "This volume is one outcome from a collaborative research project [2013-2017] entitled "The Emergence of Sared Travel (EST): Experience, Economy and Connectivity in Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage" .... The volume publishes revised versions of papers originally presented at the project's third and final symposium held in Aarhus on the 17th -19th May 2017 and entitled 'Comparativism and the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage'." --Page 7.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ePub
- ISBN:
- 9788771845433
- 8771845437
- OCLC:
- 1428309428
- Publisher Number:
- 9788771845433
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