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Film, Video From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography

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Title

  • From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography

Summary

  • A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence directly the new institution of Christian pilgrimage, while setting a foundation of religious practice for Byzantium, Islam and the western Middle Ages.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-06-09.

Headings

  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Group name: Inscribing Ethics and Belief in Medieval India and Europe .
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Scott Johnson.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-06-09.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688695

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-09, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688695/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2011) From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-09. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688695/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-09, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688695/>.