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Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity : Sacred and Profane.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Editors' Introduction
- Introduction: And Up and Down the People Go
- Part One: Aspects of Secular Travel in Late Antiquity
- Introduction
- 1 Cilicia, Geography, and the Late Roman Empire
- 2 Student Travel to Intellectual Centers: What Was the Attraction?
- 3 Letters of Recommendation and the Circulation of Rural Laborers in the Late Roman West
- 4 Milestones, Communications, and Political Stability
- Part Two: Elite Communication Networks
- Introduction
- 5 How Were Bishops Informed? Information Transmission across the Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity
- 6 Libanius' Letters as Evidence for Travel and Epistolary Networks among Greek Elites in the Fourth Century
- 7 Travel and Communication in The Letters of Symmachus
- 8 The Collected Letters of Ambrose of Milan: Correspondence with Contemporaries and with the Future
- Part Three: Reconsidering Late Antique Pilgrimage
- Introduction
- 9 Empresses in the Holy Land: The Creation of a Christian Utopia in Late Antique Palestine
- 10 Itinerant Spirituality and the Late Antique Origins of Christian Pilgrimage
- 11 Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance: Pseudo-Nilus' Narrationes in Context
- 12 Pilgrims and Foreigners: Augustine on Travelling Home
- Index of Persons
- Index of Geographical Names.