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 language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 11-21 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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