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Autor:
Simon Coleman, John Elsner
Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing
Autor:
Simon Coleman, John Elsner
Publikováno v:
History and Anthropology. 15:273-288
This article explores the “invention of tradition” thesis by examining the physical and ideological reconstruction, as well as the contemporary use, of the Christian pilgrimage site of Walsingham, in Norfolk, England. We argue that a focus on the
Autor:
Simon Coleman, John Elsner
Publikováno v:
Journeys. 3:1-16
Autor:
John Elsner
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 117:22-37
In this paper I shall explore the motif of travel in theLife of Apollonius of Tyana, composed by Philostratus in the first half of the third century AD and published after 217. This text, apart from its novelistic, hagiographic and apologetic feature
Autor:
John Elsner
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Journal of the History of Collections. 9:117-130
Autor:
John Elsner
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The Classical Quarterly. 46:515-531
It is a cliché that most Greek art (indeed most ancient art) was religious in function. Yet our histories of Classical art, having acknowledged this truism, systematically ignore the religious nuances and associations of images while focusing on div
Autor:
John Elsner, Peter Parshall, Joseph M. Levine, Martha Hollander, Margaretta M. Lovell, James Elkins, Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Publikováno v:
The Art Bulletin. 76:535-551
Autor:
John Elsner
Publikováno v:
Art History. 17:81-102
Autor:
John Elsner
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. 39:30-47
The age of Nero is universally considered – even by its more circumspect modern historians – to be a zenith of decadence. This view is not simply the invention of modern writers. It is one point on which the ancient sources, not only historians f