Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications networks. The Christian Church's expansion is but one example of both phenomena. Contributions to this volume present readers with new research on this explosion in travel and large-scale communication and the effect on this of different geographical possibilities and limitations. The papers deal with many kinds of travel (religious pilgrimages; travel for work and educational purposes; journeys of the soul) and writings about travel; they look at various kinds of communication (ecclesiastical communication; communication for commerce; and the communication of religious identity); and they examine both physical and psychological aspects of geography, travel and communication.

Linda Ellis is Professor and Director of the Museum Studies Program Frank L. Kidner is Professor in the Department of History at San Francisco State University, USA Scott Bradbury: Smith College, Northampton, Mass., USA Daniel Caner: University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA Gillian Clark: University of Bristol, UK J.F. Drinkwater: University of Nottingham, UK Maribel Dietz: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA Hugh Elton: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey Cam Grey: University of Chicago, USA Ray Laurence: University of Reading, UK Noel Lenski: University of Colorado at Boulder, USA J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz: University of Nottingham, UK Michele R. Salzman: University of California, Riverside, USA Claire Sotinel: University of Bordeaux, France Edward Watts: Indiana University, Bloomington, USA