Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 192)

Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. Contents 6 Preface 8 Author Biographies 9 Illustrations 12 Abbreviations 16 Chapter 1 Embedded Economies of Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage 18 Part 1 Movements 48 Chapter 2 Movement, Labour and Devotion: a Virtual Walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios 50 Chapter 3 Braided Networks: Pilgrimage and the Economics of Travel Infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land 79 Part 2 Communities 108 Chapter 4 Gathering in the Panhellenic Sanctuary at Delphi: an Archaeological Approach 110 Chapter 5 Hellenistic Festivals: Aspects of the Economic Impact on Cities and Sanctuaries 133 Chapter 6 Housing Pilgrims in Late Antiquity: Patrons, Buildings, and Services 157 Part 3 Transactions 178 Chapter 7 The Monetisation of Sacrifice 180 Chapter 8 ‘What Will You Give Me?’: Narratives of Religious Exchange 204 Chapter 9 Space, Exchange and the Embedded Economies of Greek Sanctuaries 221 Chapter 10 Pricing Salvation: Visitation, Donation and the Monastic Economies in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt 245 Chapter 11 Do ut des: The Function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine Pilgrimage Economy 271 Part 4 Sociological and Comparative Perspectives 302 Chapter 12 Festivals, Fairs and Foreigners: Towards an Economics of Religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée 304 Chapter 13 Gods of Trust: Ancient Delos and the Modern Economics of Religion 346 Index 374 "In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim's experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years. Contributors are: Anna Collar, Marlena Whiting, Hélène Aurigny, Marietta Horster, Robin Jensen, Fred S. Naiden, Esther Eidinow, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Louise Blanke, Max Ritter, Barbara Kowalzig, Dan-el Padilla Peralta"-- Page 4 de la couverture "In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim's experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years. Contributors are: Anna Collar, Marlena Whiting, Hélène Aurigny, Marietta Horster, Robin Jensen, Fred S. Naiden, Esther Eidinow, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Louise Blanke, Max Ritter, Barbara Kowalzig, Dan-el Padilla Peralta"-- Provided by publisher