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Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond

Name: Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond
ISBN: 9782503593111

Antonio E. Felle, Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many of them pilgrims, invoked and sought the help of God and the saints in Late Antiquity. The papers in this volume document and discuss cultic graffiti across the entire late antique Mediterranean, and into Nubia and Arabia. The principal focus is the Christian world, but there are also papers that look back to pre-Christian practice, and into the world of early Islam. Presenting evidence that is often unfamiliar, this is an important volume for anyone interested in the History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity. In examining cultic practice, we are almost always compelled to view the actions of devotees through texts written by the ecclesiastical elite, often with a clear hagiographical agenda in mind - cultic graffiti are evidence produced by the protagonists themsleves.

Kategorie:

History

Rok:

2021

Wydawnictwo:

Brepols Publishers

Język:

english

Strony:

250

ISBN 10:

2503593119