Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world, and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and medieval societies.
Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a phenomenon of vital importance.
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Preface
1. Introduction
Jenni Kuuliala and Jussi Rantala
2. Pilgrimage, Mobile Behaviours and the creation of Religious Place in early
Roman Latium
Emma-Jayne Graham
3. The Meaning of Roads: A Reinterpretation of the Roman Empire
Ray Laurence
4. The Sacred Travel of the Valesius Family: Children and the liminal Stage
Katariina Mustakallio
5. When Kings and Gods meet: Agency and Experience in Sacred Travel from
Alexander the Great to Caracalla
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
6. Roman Imperial Family on the Road: Power and Interaction in the Roman East
during the
Antonine Era
Sanna Joska
7. Pilgrimage in Pausanias
Jussi Rantala and Ville Vuolanto
8. Pilgrims Devotion? Christian Graffiti from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Eva-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler
9. The Rise of St. James Cult and the Concept of Pilgrimage
Klaus Herbers
10. Pedes habent et non ambulabunt: Mobility Impairment in Merovingian Gaul
Christian Laes
11. Sacralizing the Journey: Liturgies of Travel and Pilgrimage before the
Crusades
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
12. Not all those who wander are lost. Saintly Travellers and their
Companions in medieval Scandinavia
Sara E. Ellis Nilsson
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
Fabienne Meiers
14. Entertaining and Educating the Audience at Home: Eye-witnessing in Late
Medieval Pilgrimage Reports
Stefan Schröder
15. A Native Lord in the Spanish Royal Court: The Transatlantic Voyage of Don
Pedro de Henao, Cacique of Ipiales
Lauri Uusitalo
Index
Jenni Kuuliala is a university researcher at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include hagiography, pilgrimage and the social history of medicine in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Jussi Rantala is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland. His research concentrates on historiography, identity and power in Classical Antiquity, particularly in the Roman Empire.
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