Dates

• 326 onwards: building in Holy Land

  330 Constantinople inaugurated

• 333 Bordeaux Pilgrim visits Palestine

  335 Holy Sepulchre inaugurated

  351 Basil visits Jerusalem

• 362 Julian plans to rebuild temple

• 380 Gregory of Nyssa visits Jerusalem

• 381-4 Egeria visits Palestine & Egypt

Texts

• In Praise of Constantine , trans. in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I (=NPNF I)

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

Discussions

• John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster, 1977)

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

• 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)

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

• P. W. L. Walker, Holy City, Holy Places? Christian attitudes to jerusalem and the Holy Land in the fourth century (Oxford, 1990)

• R. Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

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

   J. W. Drijvers, Helena Augusta: the mother of Constantine the Great, and the legend of her finding of the True Cross (Leiden, 1992)

• S. Coleman and J. Elsner, Pilgrimage past and present: sacred travel and sacred space in the world religions (London, 1995)
• E.D. Hunt, “Constantine and Jerusalem.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 48 (1997) 405-424.
• Martin Biddle, The tomb of Christ (Stroud : Sutton, 1999)
• Y. Tsafrir, 'Byzantine Jerusalem: the configuration of a Christian city', in L.I. Irvine, Jerusalem (New York, 1999), 133-50
• A.S. Jacobs, Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity (Stanford, 2004)
• Noel Lenski ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge, 2006)

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