Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt / / edited by David Frankfurter.

This volume deals with the origins and rise of Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. Part One covers the major theoretical issues in the study of Coptic pilgrimage, such as sacred landscape and shrines' catchment areas, while Part Two examines native Egyptian and Egyptian Jewish pil...

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Superior document:Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume 134
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Koln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1998.
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; Volume 134.
Physical Description:1 online resource (550 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
Notes:Some illustrations folded.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / David Frankfurter
  • APPROACHES TO COPTIC PILGRIMAGEs / DAVID FRANKFURTER
  • LES DÉPLACEMENTS PIEUX EN ÉGYPTE PHARAONIQUE: SITES ET PRATIQUES CULTUELLES / YOURI VOLOKHINE
  • JEWISH PILGRIMAGE AND JEWISH IDENTITY IN HELLENISTIC AND EARLY ROMAN EGYPT / ALLEN KERKESLAGER
  • ISLAND OF THE EXTREMITY: SPACE, LANGUAGE AND POWER IN THE PILGRIMAGE TRADITIONS OF PHILAE / IAN RUTHERFORD
  • PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHRINE OF SS CYRUS AND JOHN AT MENOUTHIS IN LATE ANTIQUITY / DOMINIC MONTSERRAT
  • THE PILGRIMAGE CENTER OF ABÛ MÎNÂ / PETER GROSSMANN
  • PILGRIMAGE AND THE CULT OF SAINT THECLA IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT / STEPHEN J. DAVIS
  • VISITORS TO SHENOUTE’S MONASTERY / HEIKE BEHLMER
  • ARAB CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGES IN THE PROTO-BYZANTINE PERIOD (V-VII CENTURIES) / IRFAN SHAHÎD
  • FRAGMENTS OF THE SORTES SANCTORUM FROM THE SHRINE OF ST. COLLUTHUS / LUCIA PAPINI
  • CHANT IN COPTIC PILGRIMAGE / L.S.B. MACCOULL
  • A LITURGICAL PROCESSION IN THE DESERT OF APA SHENOUTE / JANET TIMBIE
  • “OUTSIDE THE PLACES, WITHIN THE TRUTH”: ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE LOCALIZATION OF THE HOLY / DAVID BRAKKE
  • MIRACLES, MONKS, AND MONUMENTS: THE HISTORIA MONACHORUM IN AEGYPTO AS PILGRIMS’ TALES / GEORGIA FRANK
  • INDEX / David Frankfurter
  • LIST OF DIAGRAMS AND PLATES / David Frankfurter.