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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography (Hardcover)
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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic
mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space,
narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume
highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives,
exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative
structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and
discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case
studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor,
mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and
range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth
century. The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on
the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness
in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the
spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which
mobility is employed in the narrative construction of
hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning
research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and
scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and
history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the
study of space and mobility.
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