The charisma of distant places travel and religion in the early Middle Ages

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 re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Luckhardt, Courtney, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2021
Edición:First issued in paperback 2021
Colección:Studies in medieval literature and culture
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Sumario: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 -- Página I
Descripción Física:X, 236 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 cm
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas [200]-230) e índice
ISBN:9781032090917
9780367137359