Mount Sinai : a history of travellers and pilgrims /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Haus Publishing Ltd,
2016.
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Series: | Armchair Traveller's History.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Geography
- Place Names
- Geomorphology
- Climate
- Flora and Fauna
- Chapter 1
- People of the Desert
- Anchorites
- Uneasy Symbiosis
- Early Buildings
- Early Narrations
- Holy Wilderness
- Chapter 2
- Justinian's Project
- The Monastic Ultimate
- Imperial Landscape
- Chapter 3
- The Early Islamic Period
- The Age of Pilgrimage
- The Ottoman Period
- Place of Devotion
- Chapter 4
- Sinai Questioned
- Orthodox Christianity
- Rapacious Scholars
- Sinai Represented
- Intrepid Tourists
- Object of Enquiry
- Epilogue
- Notes
- List of Pilgrims and Travellers
- Image Credits
- Bibliography