Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity

Sacred and Profane

Ellis, Linda; Kidner, Frank L.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2004

184

Dura

Inglês

9780754635352

15 a 20 dias

500

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Contents: Preface; Editors' introduction; Introduction: And up and down the people go, J.F. Drinkwater. Part 1 Aspects of secular travel in late antiquity: Introduction; Cicilia, geography, and the late Roman empire, Hugh Elton; Student travel to intellectual centers: what was the attraction?, Edward Watts; Letters of recommendation and the circulation of rural laborers in the late Roman west, Cam Grey; Milestones, communications, and political stability, Ray Laurence. Part 2 Elite communication networks: Introduction; How were bishops informed? Information transmission across the Adriatic Sea in late antiquity, Claire Sotinel; Libanius' letters as evidence for travel and epistolary networks among Greek elites in the 4th century, Scott Bradbury; Travel and communication in The Letters of Symmachus, Michele R. Salzman; The collected letters of Ambrose of Milan: correspondence with contemporaries and with the future, J.H.W.B. Liebeschuetz. Part 3 Reconsidering late antique pilgrimage: Introduction; Empresses in the Holy Land: the creation of a Christian Utopia in late antique Palestine, Noel Lenski; Itinerant spirituality and the late antique origins of Christian pilgrimage, Maribel Dietz; Sinai pilgrimage and ascetic romance: pseudo-Nilus' Narrationes in context, Daniel Caner; Pilgrims and foreigners: Augustine on travelling home, Gillian Clark; Indexes.
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Late Antique;antique;Late Antique World;world;Bethlehem;sacred;Piacenza Pilgrim;profane;Holy Men;mount;Gerontius;sinai;Late;itinerant;Alia Geographica;spirituality;LRE;prosopographical;Itinerant Spirituality;study;Prosopographical Study;Byzantium;Os;Wandering;Follow;Aeneid;Persona;Ambrose's Letters;Young Men;Opus Agriculturae;Cilician Gates;Emperor Valentinian II;Sancti Monachi;Home Towns;Epistolary Network