Encountering the sacred : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity
This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time
eBook, English, ©2005
University of California Press, University of California Press, Berkeley, Berkeley, ©2005
1 online resource (1 volume)
9780520931121, 9781423745457, 9786612357527, 9781598759259, 0520931122, 1423745450, 6612357525, 1598759256
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Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity; 1. Basil of Caesarea's and Gregory of Nyssa's Attitudes Toward Pilgrimage; 2. Jerome's Position on Pilgrimage: Vacillating Between Support and Reservations; 3. Augustine on Holy Space; 4. Pilgrimage in Monastic Culture; 5. Local Versus Central Pilgrimage; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Places; Index of Biblical Citations
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