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By Jas' Elsner,Ian Rutherford

This publication provides various case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a large choice of facts. It rejects the standard reluctance to just accept the class of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the importance of sacred mobility not just as an enormous consider realizing historic faith and its topographies but additionally as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.

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