UID:
almahu_9949383387302882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
ISBN:
9780429028359
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0429028350
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9780429647796
,
0429647794
,
9780429650437
,
0429650434
,
9780429645150
,
0429645155
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval history and culture
Content:
"This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions identified religious travelers - both men and women - as holy, connected to the human and the divine across physical and spiritual distances. Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to reveal the diversity of religious travel, from the voluntary journeys of pilgrims to the forced travel of Christian slaves. Luckhardt offers new ways of understanding ideas about power, holiness, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages. By focusing on the religious dimensions of early medieval people and the regions they visited, this book addresses probing questions, including how and why medieval people communicated and connected with one another across boundaries, both geographical and imaginative"--
Note:
Introduction -- Practicalities of early medieval travel -- Contested space, sacred space in the Holy Land -- The pull of Rome -- Monastic migration and social motion -- Unfreedom and religious migration -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Luckhardt, Courtney. Charisma of distant places. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9780367137359
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429028359
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429028359
