The memory of the eyes : pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity / / Georgia Frank
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| Autore: |
Frank Georgia <1963->
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| Titolo: |
The memory of the eyes : pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity / / Georgia Frank
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 270.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - History |
| Monasticism and religious orders - Egypt - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-210) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Pilgrims to the Living in Context; 2. Desert Ascetics and Distant Marvels: The Historia as Travelogue; 3. Imagined Journeys: Literary Paradigms for Pilgrimage to Holy People; 4. Pilgrims and the Eye of Faith; 5. How to Read a Face: Pilgrims and Ascetic Physiognomy; 6. Pilgrims to the Living and the Memory of the Eyes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The memory of the eyes |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92435-5 |
| 1-59734-742-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248214303316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 30.