Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a phenomenon of vital importance.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-28
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Medieval History and Culture
Antal sidor318
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367137564

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Jenni Kuuliala is a university researcher at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include hagiography, pilgrimage and the social history of medicine in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Jussi Rantala is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland. His research concentrates on historiography, identity and power in Classical Antiquity, particularly in the Roman Empire.

List of figuresList of mapsPreface1. IntroductionJenni Kuuliala and Jussi Rantala2. Pilgrimage, Mobile Behaviours and the creation of Religious Place in early Roman LatiumEmma-Jayne Graham3. The Meaning of Roads: A Reinterpretation of the Roman EmpireRay Laurence4. The Sacred Travel of the Valesius’ Family: Children and the liminal StageKatariina Mustakallio5. When Kings and Gods meet: Agency and Experience in Sacred Travel from Alexander the Great to CaracallaJaakkojuhani Peltonen6. Roman Imperial Family on the Road: Power and Interaction in the Roman East during theAntonine EraSanna Joska7. Pilgrimage in PausaniasJussi Rantala and Ville Vuolanto8. Pilgrim’s Devotion? Christian Graffiti from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Eva-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler9. The Rise of St. James’ Cult and the Concept of PilgrimageKlaus Herbers10. Pedes habent et non ambulabunt: Mobility Impairment in Merovingian GaulChristian Laes11. Sacralizing the Journey: Liturgies of Travel and Pilgrimage before the CrusadesM. Cecilia Gaposchkin12. ‘Not all those who wander are lost’. Saintly Travellers and their Companions in medieval ScandinaviaSara E. Ellis Nilsson13. ‘The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never’. Practices of interurban Travelling on Horseback from Antiquity to the Middle AgesFabienne Meiers14. Entertaining and Educating the Audience at Home: Eye-witnessing in Late Medieval Pilgrimage ReportsStefan Schröder15. A Native Lord in the Spanish Royal Court: The Transatlantic Voyage of Don Pedro de Henao, Cacique of IpialesLauri UusitaloIndex