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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163875303321

Titolo

Excavating pilgrimage : archaeological approaches to sacred travel and movement in the ancient world / / edited by Troels Myrup Kristensen and Wiebke Friese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-22848-3

1-351-85625-1

1-351-85626-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism

Altri autori (Persone)

FrieseWiebke

KristensenTroels Myrup

Disciplina

203/.50938

Soggetti

Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Rome

Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Greece

Material culture - Religious aspects

Material culture - Rome

Material culture - Greece

Rome Religion

Greece Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : archaeologists of pilgrimage / Wiebke Friese and Troels Myrup Kristensen -- 2. Inter-cultural pilgrimage, identity, and the axial age in the ancient Near East / Joy McCorriston -- 3. Collective mysteries and Greek pilgrimage : the cases of Eleusis, Thebes and Andania / Inge Nielsen -- 4. Of piety, gender and ritual space : an archaeological approach to women's sacred travel in Greece / Wiebke Friese -- 5. The pilgrim's passage into the sanctuary of the great gods, Samothrace / Bonna D. Wescoat -- 6. Pilgrimage and procession in the Panhellenic festivals : some observations on the Hellenistic Leukophryena in Magnesia-on-the-Meander / Kristoph Jurgens -- 7. Palimpsest and virtual presence : a reading of space and dedications at the Amphiareion at Oropos in the Hellenistic period / Alexia Petsalis-



Diomidis -- 8. Roman healing pilgrimage north of the Alps / Martin Grunewald -- 9. Visiting the ancestors : ritual movements in Rome's urban borderland / Saskia Stevens -- 10. The pilgrim and the arch : paths and passageways at Qal'at Sem'an, Sinai, Abu Mena, and Tebessa / Ann Marie Yasin -- 11. Movement as sacred mimesis at Abu Mena and Qal'at Sem'an / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- 12. The allure of the saint : late antique pilgrimage to the monastery of St. Shenoute / Louise Blanke -- 13. Excavating Meriamlik : sacred space and economy in late antique pilgrimage / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- 14. Pilgrimage and multi-religious worship : Palestinian Mamre in late antiquity / Vlastimil Drbal -- 15. Excavating pilgrimage / Jas Elsner -- 16. Pilgrimage progress? / Jan N. Bremmer.