Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane 978-0754635352

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of trave

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Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane 978-0754635352

Table of contents :
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Editors'Introduction
Contents
Introduction: And Up and Down the People Go
J. F. Drinkwater
PART ONE: ASPECTS OF SECULAR TRAVEL IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Introduction
1 Cilicia, Geography, and the Late Roman Empire
Hugh Elton
2 Student Travel to Intellectual Centers: What Was
the Attraction?
Edward Watts
3 Letters of Recommendation and the Circulation of
Rural Laborers in the Late Roman West
Cam Grey
4 Milestones, Communications, and Political Stability
Ray Laurence
PART TWO: ELITE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Introduction
5 How Were Bishops Informed? Information Transmission
across the Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity
Claire Sotinel
6 Libanius' Letters as Evidence for Travel and Epistolary
Networks among Greek Elites in the Fourth Century
Scott Bradbury
7 Travel and Communication in The Letters of Symmachus
Michele R. Salzman
8 The Collected Letters of Ambrose of Milan:
Correspondence with Contemporaries and with the Future
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz
PART THREE: RECONSIDERING LATE ANTIQUE PILGRIMAGE
Introduction
9 Empresses in the Holy Land: The Creation of a
Christian Utopia in Late Antique Palestine
Noel Lenski
10 Itinerant Spirituality and the Late Antique Origins
of Christian Pilgrimage
Maribel Dietz
11 Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance:
Pseudo-Nilus' Narrationes in Context
Daniel Caner
12 Pilgrims and Foreigners: Augustine on
Travelling Home
Gillian Clark
Index of Persons
Index of Geographical Names



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