Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion - (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity) by Anna Collar & Troels Myrup Kristensen (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. Contributions investigate different concepts of place, community, social tensions and expectations of pilgrim behaviour; long-term meanings of place as embodied in memory and topography; mobility, migration and place-making; connectivity and its relationship to pilgrimage. Individual chapters discuss shrines, sanctuaries and sacred places as well as journeys and mobility across Greek, Roman and late antique contexts, framed as part of a key debate within the study of pilgrimage, the central tension between place and motion.

About the Author

Anna Collar is Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Troels Myrup Kristensen is Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University.