Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26433-5 (ISBN)
Linda Ellis is Professor and Director of the Museum Studies Program, and Frank L. Kidner is Professor in the Department of History, San Francisco State University, USA.
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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-26433-4 / 1138264334 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-26433-5 / 9781138264335 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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