Travel Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 1st Edition by Jenni Kuuliala 9780429647703 0429647700

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• ISBN 10:  0429647700
• ISBN 13: 9780429647703
• Author: Jenni Kuuliala

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.

Table contents:

1 Introduction: travelling, religion, and society from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
2 Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium
3 The meaning of roads: a reinterpretation of the Roman Empire
4 The sacred travel of Valesius’ family: children and the liminal stage
5 When kings and gods meet: agency and experience in sacred travel from Alexander the Great to Caracalla
6 Roman Imperial family on the road: power and interaction in the Roman East during the Antonine Era
7 Pilgrimage in Pausanias
8 Pilgrim’s devotion? Christian graffiti from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
9 The rise of St. James’ cult and the concept of pilgrimage
10 Pedes habent et non ambulabunt: mobility impairment in Merovingian Gaul
11 Sacralizing the journey: liturgies of travel and pilgrimage before the Crusades
12 ‘Not all those who wander are lost’: saintly travellers and their companions in medieval Scandinavia
13 ‘The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never’: practices of interurban travelling on horseback from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
14 Entertaining and educating the audience at home: eye-witnessing in late medieval pilgrimage reports
15 An indigenous lord in the Spanish royal court: the transatlantic voyage of Don Pedro de Henao, Cacique of Ipiales

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