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Pilgrimage and economy in the ancient Mediterranean
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"In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pi...
"In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim's experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years. Contributors are: Anna Collar, Marlena Whiting, Hélène Aurigny, Marietta Horster, Robin Jensen, Fred S. Naiden, Esther Eidinow, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Louise Blanke, Max Ritter, Barbara Kowalzig, Dan-el Padilla Peralta"--
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- edited by Anna Collar, Troels Myrup Kristensen
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- English
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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- xvi, 369 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9004428690, 9004428682, 9789004428683, 9789004428690
- OCLC
- on1143633509
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Embedded economies of Ancient Mediterranean pilgrmiage / Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen Part 1: Movements. Movement, labour and devotion : a virtual walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios / Anna Collar -- Braided networks : pilgrimage and the economics of travel infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land / Marlena Whiting -- Part 2: Communities. gathering in the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi : an archaeological approach / Hélène Aurigny -- Hellenistic festivals : aspects of the economic impact on cities and sanctuaries / Marietta Horster -- Housing pilgrims in late Antiquity : patrons, buildings, and services / Robin M. Jensen -- Part 3: Transactions. The monetisation of sacrifice / F. S. Naiden -- 'What will you give me?' : narratives of religious exchange / Esther Eidinow -- Space, exchange and the embedded economies of Greek sanctuaries / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Pricing salvation : visitation, donation and the monastic economics in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt / Louise Blanke -- Do ut des : the function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine pilgrmage economy / Max Ritter -- Part 4: Sociological and comparative perspectives. Festivals, fairs and foreigners : towards an economics of religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée / Barbara Kowalzig -- Gods of trust : ancient Delos and the modern economics of religion / Dan-el Padilla Peralta