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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser |
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Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: travelling, religion, and society from Antiquity to the Middle Ages; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium; Introduction; Towards a definition of ancient pilgrimage; Producing religious place in Republican Italy; Celebrating the cult of Diana Nemorensis; Into the woods at Pantanacci, Lanuvium; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 3 The meaning of roads: a reinterpretation of the Roman EmpireIntroduction; Roads and Roman power: A geography of Empire; The state as a distributed network of power; Roads and territory; Janus, coins, and bridges in the provinces; The Viae Domitiana and Traiana: Roads, bridges and arches in Italy; Roads, communities and the state; Roads and time -- Vetustate; Experience, agency and interaction; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4 The sacred travel of Valesius' family: children and the liminal stage; Introduction; Authors and their approaches; The story of Valesius; Omens and portents |
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Travel through Tiber to TarentumThe cult place at Terentum; The role of the children; The legend and its implications: Interaction, experience, and agency; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5 When kings and gods meet: agency and experience in sacred travel from Alexander the Great to Caracalla; Introduction; Agency and visiting the tombs of Trojan heroes and Cyrus the Great; The 'Roman Alexanders' encounter their divine heroes; Agency and given motivations for oracular visits; Experiencing blessed oracular visits and the power of the gods |
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The visitor's experience and negative character developmentConclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Roman Imperial family on the road: power and interaction in the Roman East during the Antonine Era; Introduction; An imperial wedding at Ephesus; Children at military camps; An imperial family on tour in the East; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Pilgrimage in Pausanias; Introduction; Leaving and arriving -- travel or not?; Local practices and local travel; Intraregional and interregional shrines; The great past of Pausanias: the Panhellenic rituals |
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Conclusions I: Pausanias the observerConclusions II: Pausanias the nostalgic pilgrim; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Pilgrim's devotion? Christian graffiti from Antiquity to the Middle Ages; Introduction; Vatican City, St. Peter's Memory (Italy); Rome, Via Appia, San Sebastiano (Italy); Trier, Liebfrauenkirche (Germany); Monte Sant'Angelo (Monte Gargano), San Michele (Italy); Reichenau-Niederzell, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Altar Stone (Germany); Sankt Gallen, Liber Memorialis (Switzerland); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 9 The rise of St. James' cult and the concept of pilgrimage |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rantala, Jussi
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| ISBN |
9780429650345 |
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0429650345 |
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