Travel, communication and geography in late antiquity : sacred and profane / edited by Linda Ellis and Frank L. Kidner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : and up and down the people go -- Pt. 1. Aspects of secular travel in late antiquity -- 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 -- Pt. 2. Elite communication networks -- 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 -- Pt. 3. Three : reconsidering late antique pilgrimage -- 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.

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