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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 203/.50938
• Soggetto topico: Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Rome; Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Greece; Material culture - Religious aspects; Material culture - Rome; Material culture - Greece
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Religion; Greece Religion
• Altri autori: FrieseWiebke KristensenTroels Myrup
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Excavating pilgrimage
• ISBN: 1-315-22848-3; 1-351-85625-1; 1-351-85626-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163875303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II