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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 May 2025
      05 June 2025
      ISBN:
      9781009616249
      9781009616225
      9781009616232
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.252kg, 78 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
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      0.13kg, 78 Pages
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      Elements in Early Christian Literature
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    Elements in Early Christian Literature

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    Egeria's Itinerarium is a unique document. It is one of the few surviving works from antiquity written by a woman and is one of the first Christian travelogues depicting a pilgrimage to and in the Holy Land. In her Itinerarium, Egeria describes not only her travels but also the practices of pilgrimage and the liturgical life in Jerusalem at a time when both of these were developing rapidly. As Egeria's explicit goal is to communicate her observations and thoughts to her friends, a community of women in the west, this study focusses on Egeria's role as a communicator. Both the contents of her text – what she wanted to communicate and the techniques she used to mediate her experiences and learning to her friends, that is, how she chose to communicate, are scrutinized. Special attention is given to how Egeria describes lived religion in antiquity.

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