Written by the Body: Early Christian Pilgrims as Sacred Placemakers

Authors

Jenn Cianca, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke QCFollow

Abstract

This paper uncovers how the journeys of the earliest Christian pilgrims constructed the very notion of sacred bodies and sacred place, consequently establishing the networks of pilgrimage routes that would be used by Western travellers from Late Antiquity onward.

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Recommended Citation

Cianca, Jenn (2019) "Written by the Body: Early Christian Pilgrims as Sacred Placemakers," International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 3.
doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/kam9-y363
Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss1/3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/kam9-y363