Movement, Sensory Spaces and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity (Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism)

Movement, Sensory Spaces and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity (Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780415791052
  • DDC分類 930

Full Description


This is the first volume to bring together the fields of ancient religions, sensory studies and movement studies, with the objective of introducing sensory studies as a methodological approach to religion. The volume's main theme is human movement through physical space as it pertains to religious experience in the ancient world. Each chapter discusses a more specific treatment of this theme, such as pilgrimage towards a sacred place or some physicalised aspect of ancient ritual such as the aural and olfactory environment of festivals, funerals and weddings, or the relationship between Roman city walls and religious movement. Offering a substantial and innovative contribution to the burgeoning fields of sensory and spatial experience in the ancient world this volume will encourage further dialogue between otherwise disparate fields of research.

Contents

1. Introduction - Littlechilds and Veitch / 2. Multisensory Mapping of Rome's Religious Landscape -Betts / 3. The Aural Environment of the Festivals of Apollo at Delos - Olivieri / 4. Can You Hear Me Now? Noise and Exclusion in the Mithraea of Ostia - Veitch / 5. The neglected crossings: the role of bridges in the movement and memory of ancient Rome - Hoggarth / 6. Processing through the walls: the relationship between Roman city walls and religious movement - Pinder / 7. Marriages and Funerals: Exploring Public and Private through Religious Ritual and Sensory Experience in the Atrium and Beyond - Platts / 8. "His ashes steam with Assyrian spice": odour, olfaction, and the Roman funeral - Clancy / 9. Smell and Taste of Rome on the Eve of the Festival - Trostnikova / 10. Of matrons, movement and majesty: Matronae primores civitatis and the advent of the Magna Mater (204 BCE) - Webb / 11. Ad limina sanctorum: Damasus I and the facilitation of physical access to Rome's holy dead - Littlechilds / Afterword - Veitch / Bibliography / Index