Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of maps
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: travelling, religion, and society from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2 Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium
	Introduction
	Towards a definition of ancient pilgrimage
	Producing religious place in Republican Italy
	Celebrating the cult of Diana Nemorensis
	Into the woods at Pantanacci, Lanuvium
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3 The meaning of roads: a reinterpretation of the Roman Empire
	Introduction
	Roads and Roman power: A geography of Empire
	The state as a distributed network of power
	Roads and territory
	Janus, coins, and bridges in the provinces
	The Viae Domitiana and Traiana: Roads, bridges and arches in Italy
	Roads, communities and the state
	Roads and time – Vetustate
	Experience, agency and interaction
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4 The sacred travel of Valesius’ family: children and the liminal stage
	Introduction
	Authors and their approaches
	The story of Valesius
	Omens and portents
	Travel through Tiber to Tarentum
	The cult place at Terentum
	The role of the children
	The legend and its implications: Interaction, experience, and agency
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5 When kings and gods meet: agency and experience in sacred travel from Alexander the Great to Caracalla
	Introduction
	Agency and visiting the tombs of Trojan heroes and Cyrus the Great
	The ‘Roman Alexanders’ encounter their divine heroes
	Agency and given motivations for oracular visits
	Experiencing blessed oracular visits and the power of the gods
	The visitor’s experience and negative character development
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6 Roman Imperial family on the road: power and interaction in the Roman East during the Antonine Era
	Introduction
	An imperial wedding at Ephesus
	Children at military camps
	An imperial family on tour in the East
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7 Pilgrimage in Pausanias
	Introduction
	Leaving and arriving – travel or not?
	Local practices and local travel
	Intraregional and interregional shrines
	The great past of Pausanias: the Panhellenic rituals
	Conclusions I: Pausanias the observer
	Conclusions II: Pausanias the nostalgic pilgrim
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 8 Pilgrim’s devotion? Christian graffiti from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
	Introduction
	Vatican City, St. Peter’s Memory (Italy)
	Rome, Via Appia, San Sebastiano (Italy)
	Trier, Liebfrauenkirche (Germany)
	Monte Sant\'Angelo (Monte Gargano), San Michele (Italy)
	Reichenau-Niederzell, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Altar Stone (Germany)
	Sankt Gallen, Liber Memorialis (Switzerland)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 9 The rise of St. James’ cult and the concept of pilgrimage
	Introduction
	Peregrinus and peregrinatio. Concepts in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
	The rising of St. James’s cult
	The pilgrimage to St. James in its central period: forms and models
	Conclusion: Forms of dissemination and transformation in the late Middle Ages
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 10 Pedes habent et non ambulabunt: mobility impairment in Merovingian Gaul
	Introduction: Continuity, change and ... disabilities
	Mobility impairment: What to study and how to study it?
	The Vita Boniti: Donning the cap of literary and philological analysis
	Aetiology and symptoms of mobility impairment
	Social realities, attitudes and reactions
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 11 Sacralizing the journey: liturgies of travel and pilgrimage before the Crusades
	Introduction
	Rites for travelers
	Rites for pilgrims
	Epilogue: Crusade as travel and pilgrimage
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 12 ‘Not all those who wander are lost’: saintly travellers and their companions in medieval Scandinavia
	Introduction
	The sources and a historical perspective
	Destinations and purpose of travel
	Companions on the journey – interactions and social standing
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 13 ‘The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never’: practices of interurban travelling on horseback from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
	Introduction: Of hooves, heels and wheels
	The horse as means of transport in the Roman period
	Minding the gap between two periods: Travelling on horseback in the Early Middle Ages
	The ‘equestrian turn’: Interurban equestrian travelling from the 11th to the 15th century
	Excursus: Investigating the account books of the city of Luxembourg (1388–1500)
	Messengers and envoys: Urban functionaries on horseback
	Democratising equestrian traffic
	Travel horses in literature
	Conclusions: Towards a ‘centaurised’ mobility
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 14 Entertaining and educating the audience at home: eye-witnessing in late medieval pilgrimage reports
	Introduction
	Eye-witnessing and Felix Fabri’s Evagatorium
	Eye-witnessing holy places and confirming salvation history
	Eye-witnessing and curiosity
	Feigned eye-witnessing (in order to explain the world)
	Eye-witnessing within Fabri’s pilgrimage narratives and their audiences
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 15 An indigenous lord in the Spanish royal court: the transatlantic voyage of Don Pedrode Henao, Cacique of Ipiales
	Introduction
	The cacique
	The voyage
	Don Pedro representing his people
	Living in between
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index