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Author Frank, Georgia, 1963-

Title The memory of the eyes : pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity / Georgia Frank.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The transformation of the classical heritage ; 30
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 30.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index.
Summary With its unique focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage - especially visuality - this book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts.
Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Pilgrims to the Living in Context; 2. Desert Ascetics and Distant Marvels: The Historia as Travelogue; 3. Imagined Journeys: Literary Paradigms for Pilgrimage to Holy People; 4. Pilgrims and the Eye of Faith; 5. How to Read a Face: Pilgrims and Ascetic Physiognomy; 6. Pilgrims to the Living and the Memory of the Eyes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430. Lausiac history.
Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430.
Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
Lausiac history (Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna)
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
History.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Egypt -- History.
Monasticism and religious orders.
Egypt.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Frank, Georgia, 1963- Memory of the eyes. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520222059 (DLC) 99056845
ISBN 9780520924352 (electronic book)
0520924355 (electronic book)
0585394687 (electronic book)
9780585394688 (electronic book)
0520222059 (alkaline paper)
9780520222052 (alkaline paper)
1597347426
9781597347426

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