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19: - Pilgrimage to Constantinople

from Part V - Encountering Constantinople

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Annemarie Weyl Carr
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 19, “Pilgrimage to Constantinople,” examines the emergence of Constantinople as a sacred center of Christian pilgrimage. It outlines the city’s attractions and considers the motives that drove people to visit.

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Pilgrimagerelicsicons
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 310 - 323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Ciggaar, K. N. Western Travellers to Constantinople: The West and Byzantium, 962–2404: Cultural and Political Relations (Leiden, New York, and Cologne, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Majeska, G. P., Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 1984).Google Scholar
Majeska, G. P., “Russian Pilgrims in Constantinople,” DOP 56 (2002): 93–108.Google Scholar
Vin, J. P. A. Van der, Travellers to Greece and Constantinople: Ancient Monuments and Old Traditions in Medieval Travellers’ Tales, 2 vols. (Istanbul, 1980).Google Scholar
Wilkinson, J., Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusade (Warminster, 2002).Google Scholar
Wilkinson, J., Egeria’s Travels, 3rd ed. (Warminster, 1999).Google Scholar
Wilkinson, J., Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099–1185 (London, 1988).Google Scholar

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