Egeria
Subtitle: Mediterranean medieval places of pilgrimage : network for the documentation, preservation and enhancement of monuments in the Euromediterranean area
By: [editing, Maria Kazakou, Vasileios Skoulas ; authors of the introductory notes, Evangelia Hadjitryphonos, Ioanna Koltsida-Makri, Nikolaos Zias ; authors of introductory articles, Nano Chatzidaki ... et al.].
Contributors: Chatzēdakē, N. M. (Nanō M.); Ousterhout, Robert G.; Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry; Greece. Dieuthynsē Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Mnēmeiōn
Publisher: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Directorate of Byzantine and Post Byzantine Antiquities
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789602147252
Subjects: Christian shrines; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; History; Medieval Travel; Travel; Christianity; Church history; Christian art and symbolism; Religion and geography; Byzantine Antiquities; Wallfahrtskirche; Wallfahrt; Christian art and symbolism / Medieval, 500-1500 / Mediterranean Region; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages / Mediterranean Region / History / To 1500; Christian shrines / Mediterranean Region; Church history / Middle Ages, 600-1500; Church history / Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Travel / Religious aspects / Christianity / History / To 1500; Frühchristentum; Ikone; Kirchenbau; Kirchengerät
Other titles: Monuments of faith in the medieval Mediterranean
Notes: "The documentation and study of the pilgrimage monuments conserved around the Mediterranean basin is the primary goal of the European program EGERIA, named after the first woman to embark, in the 4th century, on a long pilgrimage trek from faraway Spain to the Holy Land ..."--P. 21.

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Table of contents: title: Mediterranean Medieval places of pilgrimage / Nikos Zias; title: Introduction / Evangelia Hadjitryphonos; title: The development of holy sites in the Byzantine Orient between the 4th and the 7th century / Pierre Maraval; title: Pilgrimage in the eastern Mediterranean between the 7th and 15th centuries / Alice-Mary Talbot; title: Pilgirimage architecture / Robert Ousterhout; title: Holy places used successively or simaltaneously by different religions / Souzana Choulia; title: Religious icons / Nano Chatzidaki; title: Shrines of pilgrimage : relics of saints, reliquaries and dedications / Yota Ikonomaki-Papadopoulou.