Author : Jas' Elsner
Release : 2007-12-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity by : Jas' Elsner
Download or read book Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity written by Jas' Elsner. This book was released on 2007-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.