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- catalog abstract ""Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of Christian late antiquity. Through an analysis of pilgrim writings of this period, Georgia Frank discovers a literary imagination at work, one that both recorded and shaped the experience of pilgrimage to living saints. Taking a new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers' and readers' spiritual expectations and uses insights to add to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage." "Frank focuses in particular on two early texts - The History of the Monks in Egypt (ca. 400) and Palladius's The Lausiac History (ca. 420), situating these narratives in their literary, historical, and spiritual contexts. She compares these narratives to exotic travel writing and to tales of otherworldly journeys. Bringing in contemporary theory, she demonstrates the importance of sight as a means of spiritual progress and explores the relation between the function of sight in these narratives and in other expressions of visual piety in Christian late antiquity, such as the veneration of relics and, eventually, icons." "With its focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage - especially visuality - this absorbing book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts. At the same time, it also sheds new light on the relation between religious experience and the senses, on literary representations of visual experience, and on the literature of pious travel."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11602946.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of Christian late antiquity. Through an analysis of pilgrim writings of this period, Georgia Frank discovers a literary imagination at work, one that both recorded and shaped the experience of pilgrimage to living saints. Taking a new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers' and readers' spiritual expectations and uses insights to add to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage." "Frank focuses in particular on two early texts - The History of the Monks in Egypt (ca. 400) and Palladius's The Lausiac History (ca. 420), situating these narratives in their literary, historical, and spiritual contexts. She compares these narratives to exotic travel writing and to tales of otherworldly journeys. Bringing in contemporary theory, she demonstrates the importance of sight as a means of spiritual progress and explores the relation between the function of sight in these narratives and in other expressions of visual piety in Christian late antiquity, such as the veneration of relics and, eventually, icons." "With its focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage - especially visuality - this absorbing book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts. At the same time, it also sheds new light on the relation between religious experience and the senses, on literary representations of visual experience, and on the literature of pious travel."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Pilgrims to the Living in Context -- 2. Desert Ascetics and Distant Marvels: The Historia as Travelogue -- 3. Imagined Journeys: Literary Paradigms for Pilgrimage to Holy People -- 4. Pilgrims and the Eye of Faith -- 5. How to Read a Face: Pilgrims and Ascetic Physiognomy -- 6. Pilgrims to the Living and the Memory of the Eyes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-210) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 219 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520222059 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The transformation of the classical heritage ; 30".
- catalog isPartOf "Transformation of the classical heritage ; 30.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "270.2 21".
- catalog subject "BR190.H573 F73 2000".
- catalog subject "BR190.H573 F73 2000X".
- catalog subject "Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages History.".
- catalog subject "Historia monachorum in Aegypto.".
- catalog subject "Monasticism and religious orders Egypt History.".
- catalog subject "Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430. Lausiac history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Pilgrims to the Living in Context -- 2. Desert Ascetics and Distant Marvels: The Historia as Travelogue -- 3. Imagined Journeys: Literary Paradigms for Pilgrimage to Holy People -- 4. Pilgrims and the Eye of Faith -- 5. How to Read a Face: Pilgrims and Ascetic Physiognomy -- 6. Pilgrims to the Living and the Memory of the Eyes.".
- catalog title "The memory of the eyes : pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity / Georgia Frank.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".