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Pilgrimage and economy in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Anna Collar, Troels Myrup Kristensen.

Contributor(s): Collar, Anna, 1979- [editor.] | Kristensen, Troels Myrup [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world: v. 192.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]Description: xvi, 369 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004428683; 9004428682Subject(s): Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Mediterranean Region | Religion -- Economic aspects | Economics -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 203/.510938 LOC classification: BL619.P5 | P1565 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Embedded economies of Ancient Mediterranean pilgrmiage / Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen Movement, labour and devotion : a virtual walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios / Anna Collar -- Braided networks : pilgrimage and the economics of travel infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land / Marlena Whiting -- gathering in the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi : an archaeological approach / Hélène Aurigny -- Hellenistic festivals : aspects of the economic impact on cities and sanctuaries / Marietta Horster -- Housing pilgrims in late Antiquity : patrons, buildings, and services / Robin M. Jensen -- The monetisation of sacrifice / F. S. Naiden -- 'What will you give me?' : narratives of religious exchange / Esther Eidinow -- Space, exchange and the embedded economies of Greek sanctuaries / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Pricing salvation : visitation, donation and the monastic economics in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt / Louise Blanke -- Do ut des : the function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine pilgrmage economy / Max Ritter -- Festivals, fairs and foreigners : towards an economics of religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée / Barbara Kowalzig -- Gods of trust : ancient Delos and the modern economics of religion / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Embedded economies of Ancient Mediterranean pilgrmiage / Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen Part 1: Movements. Movement, labour and devotion : a virtual walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios / Anna Collar -- Braided networks : pilgrimage and the economics of travel infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land / Marlena Whiting -- Part 2: Communities. gathering in the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi : an archaeological approach / Hélène Aurigny -- Hellenistic festivals : aspects of the economic impact on cities and sanctuaries / Marietta Horster -- Housing pilgrims in late Antiquity : patrons, buildings, and services / Robin M. Jensen -- Part 3: Transactions. The monetisation of sacrifice / F. S. Naiden -- 'What will you give me?' : narratives of religious exchange / Esther Eidinow -- Space, exchange and the embedded economies of Greek sanctuaries / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Pricing salvation : visitation, donation and the monastic economics in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt / Louise Blanke -- Do ut des : the function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine pilgrmage economy / Max Ritter -- Part 4: Sociological and comparative perspectives. Festivals, fairs and foreigners : towards an economics of religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée / Barbara Kowalzig -- Gods of trust : ancient Delos and the modern economics of religion / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.

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