Charisma of Distant Places

Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages

AvCourtney Luckhardt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367137359

Utforska kategorier

Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Courtney Luckhardt is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.

Recensioner i media

‘... an original and nuanced discussion of the real and imagined experiences of early medieval travellers’ - Early Medieval Europe (Volume 29/2, 2021).‘... we see Luckhardt... cogently interweaving the mechanics and mental universes of medieval travelers in support of an eminently plausible assumption: early medieval travel cannot be understood without taking seriously the religious contours in which it was embedded’ - Journal of Late Antiquity (Volume 14/1, Spring 2021).‘The breadth of the analysis—discussing both the physical as opposed to just the spiritual aspects of travel—makes the book a valuable contribution to understanding the period... Summing Up: Highly recommended’ – CHOICE May 2020.

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Practicalities of early medieval travel2 Contested space, sacred space in the Holy Land3 The pull of Rome4 Monastic migration and social motion5 Unfreedom and religious migrationsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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