Travel, communication and geography in late antiquity : sacred and profane /
edited by Linda Ellis and Frank L. Kidner.
- xix, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : and up and down the people go -- Aspects of secular travel in late antiquity -- Cilicia, geography, and the late Roman empire -- Student travel to intellectual centers : what was the attraction? -- Letters of recommendation and the circulation of rural laborers in the late Roman west -- Milestones, communications, and political stability -- Elite communication networks -- How were bishops informed? : information transmission across the adriatic sea in late antiquity -- Libanius' letters as evidence for travel and epistolary networks among Greek elites in the fourth century -- Travel and communication in the letters of symmachus -- The collected letters of Ambrose of Milan : correspondence with contemporaries and with the future -- Three : reconsidering late antique pilgrimage -- Empresses in the holy land : the creation of a Christian utopia in late antique Palestine -- Itinerant spirituality and the late antique origins of Christian pilgrimage -- Sinai pilgrimage and ascetic romance : pseudo-nilus' narrationes in context -- Pilgrims and foreigners : Augustine on travelling home. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 3. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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