The Charisma of Distant Places

Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages

Courtney Luckhardt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09091-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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Introduction

1 Practicalities of early medieval travel

2 Contested space, sacred space in the Holy Land

3 The pull of Rome

4 Monastic migration and social motion

5 Unfreedom and religious migrations

Epilogue

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-032-09091-X / 103209091X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-09091-7 / 9781032090917
Zustand	Neuware