TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Linda
AU  - Kidner,Frank
TI  - Travel, communication and geography in late antiquity: sacred and profane 
SN  - 075463535X
U1  - 913 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Aldershot
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Travelers
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Communication
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Travel
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Historical geography
N1  - 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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