IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 516: Showing the Way: Tourists and Sightseers, 300-800
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
| Paper 516-a | Was the Peutinger Table a Guidebook for Tourists? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 516-b | Pilgrim Guides and the Staging of Holy Places (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Religious Life |
| Paper 516-c | Egeria: Female Pilgrims and their Way to the Holy Places (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 516-d | 1000 Places to See before You Die?: Travelling the Holy Land with Willibald (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The Holy Land as well as the late Roman Mediterranean as a whole appears as a world of constant human movement. Soldiers, traders, ambassadors, even entire 'peoples' were on their way. The session 'Tourists and Sightseers' gathers together four studies on another group of persons on the move: Starting from the question whether the Peutinger Table was designed as a Guidebook for tourists the papers will provide insights into features of early Christian pilgrimage and discuss the particular circumstances of religious tourism, as for example the account of the journey of Egeria. Travelling the Holy Land and its prominent and staged sights will be analysed up to the 8th century with the travel writing of Saint Willibald. |