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Course A107: From Late Antiquity to Byzantium

Desert and Holy Land

Dates

326 Church of Holy Sepulchre started

333 Bordeaux Pilgrim visits Palestine

351 Basil visits Jerusalem

362 Julian plans to rebuild temple

380 Gregory of Nyssa visits Jerusalem

381-4 Egeria visits Palestine & Egypt

385 Jerome, Paula and Eustochium , settle at Bethlehem

Pilgrimage

Egeria, works,  online see also J. Wilkinson, Egeria's Travels (l973, rev. Aris & Phillips, 1981); 

Gerontius, Life of Melania the Younger, trans. Elizabeth A. Clark, l984.

J. N. Kelly, Jerome (London, 1975); see also www

E.D. Hunt, Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire (Oxford, 1982)

R. Ousterhout ed., The Blessings of Pilgrimage (Urbana, 1990)

R. Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Robert Wilken, The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought (New Haven, 1992)

S. Coleman and J. Elsner, Pilgrimage past and present: sacred travel and sacred space in the world religions (London, 1995)

From Thomas Head's bibliography of hagiography : 'More generally, see John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster, 1977); F. E. Peters, Jerusalem. The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times (Princeton, 1985);  F. E. Peters, The Distant Shrine: The Islamic Centuries in Jerusalem (New York, 1993). Allison Elliott has studied the impact of the pilgrimage motif on early Christian hagiography in Roads to Paradise: Reading the Lives of the Early Saints (Hanover, NH, 1987)'.

Martin Biddle, The tomb of Christ (Stroud : Sutton, 1999)

Palestinian Monasticism

R. M. Price (trans.) and J. Binns (ed.), Cyril of Scythopolis: The Lives of the Monks of Palestine (Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo/London, 1991)

  Y. Hirschfeld, The Judaean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period (New Haven, 1992)

John Binns, Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: the monasteries of Palestine 314-631 (Oxford, 1994); review in BMCR

  Joseph Patrich, Sabas, Leader of Palestinian Monasticism: A Comparative Study in Eastern Monasticism, Fourth to Seventh Centuries, DOS 32 (Washington 1995)

Georgia Frank, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to the Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 2000)

For Egyptian monasticism see the UCL article on the www


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