Written by the Body: Early Christian Pilgrims as Sacred Placemakers

Jenn Cianca

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Abstract

This paper uncovers how the journeys of the earliest Christian pilgrims constructed the very notion of sacred bodies and sacred place, consequently establishing the networks of pilgrimage routes that would be used by Western travellers from Late Antiquity onward.
Original languageEnglish
Article number3
Pages (from-to)11-21
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Devotion
  • Early Christian pilgrimage
  • Early Christianity
  • Egeria
  • Embodied religion
  • Female pilgrims
  • Fourth century
  • Gender
  • Itineraria
  • Melito of Sardus
  • Pilgrimage
  • Place
  • Sacred geography
  • Sacred space
  • Senses
  • Spatial practices

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