The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity Volume 30

by Georgia Frank

Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original analysis of pilgrim writings of this period, Georgia Frank discovers a literary imagination at work, one that both recorded and shaped the experience of pilgrimage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520222059
• ISBN13: 9780520222052
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.3"