Excavating Pilgrimage: Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World

ISBN-13: 9781472453907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 306 str.

Wiebke Friese; Troels Myrup Kristensen

Opis

This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire, and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience? The volume brings together a group of scholars that explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, the spatial organization of sanctuaries, and wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the relationship between architecture, art, and ritual. Contributions also tackle directly both methodological and theoretical issues related to the study of pilgrimage, sacred travel, and other types of movement to, from, and within sanctuaries through case studies stretching in time from the first millennium BC to the early Medieval period.