To the Issue of the Nature of the Early Byzantine Pilgrimage: Pragmatic Aspects
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2023-50-1-44-52Keywords:
pilgrimage, Early Byzantium, antiquity, church, space, pragmatic aspectsAbstract
The article deals with the pragmatic aspects of the early Byzantine pilgrimage. It is concluded that pious travellers (pilgrims), who actively moved throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, both by sea and by land, were not completely isolated from everyday life and were included in a number of pragmatic aspects. These are material infrastructure, the availability of roads, security, inclusion in existing communications (the use of merchant ships), etc. Places of pilgrimage were associated with the cult of the Holy Land in Palestine and with the cult of holy places associated with the memory of individual saints and martyrs throughout the empire. Places of pilgrimage included not only a temple or a monastery, but also, by extension, the entire district. In addition to Palestine, one of the most important pilgrimage regions was Cilicia, primarily in connection with the cult of St. Thekla. It provides good source study opportunities for studying the problem, as it has both written (the life of St. Thekla) and archaeological sources.
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