Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art: Revised Edition

by Gary Vikan

Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art explores the portable artifacts of eastern Mediterranean pilgrimage from the fifth to the seventh century, presenting them in the context of contemporary pilgrims' texts and the archaeology of sacred sites. The book shows how the iconography and devotional piety of Byzantine pilgrimage art changed, and it surveys the material and social culture of pilgrimage. What did these early religious travelers take home...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884023583
• ISBN13: 9780884023586
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 9.4"