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44: 28: 151:, the report is a dry enumeration of the cities through which he passed and the places where he stopped or changed horses, with their respective distances. For the Holy Land he also briefly notes the important events which he believes to be connected with the various places. Here he makes some strange blunders, as when he places the 216:). The segments of the journey are summarised; they are delineated by major cities, with major summaries at Rome and Milan, long-established centers of culture and administration, and Constantinople, refounded by Constantine only three years previously, and the "non-city" of Jerusalem. 322:"We travelled in the Consulate of Dalmatius and Zenophilus, leaving Chalcedonia on 30 May and returned to Constantinople on 26 December in the same Consulate." Quoted in Jaś Elsner, "The Itinerarium Burdigalense: Politics and Salvation in the Geography of Constantine's Empire", 235:
survives in four manuscripts, all written between the 8th and 10th centuries. Two give only the Judean portion of the trip, which is fullest in topographical glosses on the sites, in a range of landscape detail missing from the other sections, and Christian legend.
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Some scholars of early Christianity maintain that the book is not a first-person account of a Christian pilgrimage to Byzantine Palestine but a collection of secondhand stories compiled by someone living in Bordeaux.
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to which the pilgrim went had to be entirely reinvented in those years, since its main site – ancient Jerusalem – had been sacked under the
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Mapped route of the journey described by an unnamed Christian pilgrim, who travelled from Gallia Aquitania (Southern France) to the Holy Land in the fourth century.
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Glenn Bowman argues that it is a carefully structured work relating profoundly to Old and New Biblical dispensations via the medium of water and baptism imagery.
725: 364: 434: 499: 329:(2000:181–195) p. 183. On the return journey, the pilgrim took another route to see Rome. The return trip from Milan to Bordeaux is not repeated. 472: 429: 440: 492: 43: 416: 875: 411:: Aetheria/Egeria, Reise in das Heilige Land. Lateinisch/deutsch (Sammlung Tusculum). Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter 2016. 850: 830: 464: 484: 448: 699: 17: 159:. His description of Jerusalem, though short, contains information of great value for the topography of the city. 268: 870: 860: 787: 885: 865: 361: 360:. (ed. Lee. I. Levine). New York & Jerusalem: Continuum Press and Magness Press. 1998. pp. 163–187 ( 880: 122: 356:
Bowman, "Mapping History's Redemption: Eschatology and Topography in the Itinerarium Burdigalense' in
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The basic edition is that edited by P. Geyer and O. Kuntz, Brepols, 1965; general context of early
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Jerusalem: its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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4th-century account of a pligrimage from Bordeaux to the Holy Land
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Many of these texts have been translated and published by the
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of Caesarea, Church historian and geographer of the Holy Land
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to the next and distinguishes between each change of horses (
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The compiler of the itinerary cites the boundaries from one
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Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Late Roman Empire AD 312–460
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in 333 and 334 as he travelled by land through northern
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Tractatus de locis et statu sancte terre ierosolimitane
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New York: Robert Appleton Company. 254:, pilgrim to the Holy Land (c. 381–384) 14: 843: 449:The Bordeaux Pilgrim at Centuryone.com 430:An overview (with maps) of the account 56:("Bordeaux Itinerary"), also known as 488: 24: 402: 165:notes that twenty-one years after 25: 912: 423: 831:Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society 465:Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society 105:; then through the provinces of 70:from the city of Burdigala (now 269:Antoninus of Piacenza (pilgrim) 389: 374: 350: 341: 332: 316: 299: 226: 13: 1: 292: 169:legalized Christianity, "the 669:Puteshestive igumena Daniila 471:Bechtel, Florentine (1910). 324:The Journal of Roman Studies 58:Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum 7: 876:4th-century Christian texts 700:Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan 679:Descriptio de locis sanctis 239: 141:Interpretation and analysis 78:) in the Roman province of 10: 917: 851:4th-century books in Latin 788:Bertrandon de la Broquière 733:Itinerarium terrae sanctae 362:on-line text in pdf format 309:is provided by E.D. 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Bordeaux Pilgrim


itinerarium
pilgrim
Bordeaux
France
Gallia Aquitania
Roman Empire
Holy Land
Italy
Danube
Constantinople
Asia
Syria
Jerusalem
Syria-Palaestina
Macedonia
Otranto
Rome
Milan
Catholic Encyclopedia
Transfiguration
Mount Olivet
Jaś Elsner
Constantine
Holy Land
Emperor Hadrian
Aelia Capitolina
Roman province

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