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- Title
Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity.
- Authors
Dora, Veronica della
- Abstract
Implicit in I Literary Territories i is the scalar tension that lies at the very root of Christian doctrine, working as it does between the locale (the places of Christ's terrestrial ministry) and the I oikoumene i as a space for universal redemption. The resulting "maps" range from linear, hodological models inherited from ancient geographical writings and I itineraria i (for example, in pilgrim accounts) to the "ring narrative" employed by Saint Thekla's hagiographer and the synoptic "apostolic world maps" laid out in the apocrypha. The Syrian monks wander on the same imaginary map of the I oikoumene i as their western counterparts: the map of an ancient world apportioned by Christ himself to his apostles (as later evocatively illustrated on one of Beatus' I mappae mundi i ).
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS tourism; SACRED space; GEOGRAPHIC names; WORLD maps; ANCIENT literature; PILGRIMS &; pilgrimages
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2021, Vol 45, Issue 1, p128
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1017/byz.2020.31