Información General

• Autores: José Carlos López Gómez (ed. lit.), Antón Alvar Nuño (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
• Año de publicación: 2025
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781032594194
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Resumen

• This volume examines the dynamism and complexity of religious expressions in rural settings across Late Antique Iberia. Chapters demonstrate that the rural world was a dynamic space which formed an integral part of the multi-directional process of religious exchange on the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity, thus refuting the idea that rural spaces, and in turn rural religious practices, were static and unchanging, anchored in tradition and resistant to any process of religious change. The chapters present a series of case studies that examine phenomena such as the multi-locality of certain religious groups that moved periodically between the city and the countryside, the strategies that local agents used to shape religious expressions in rural areas (significantly marked by the permeability between the urban and rural worlds), the creation of religious landscapes as spaces imbued with cultural meanings by religious authorities that conceive the rural world as a place of refuge and spiritual experience, or the analysis of trans-local religious networks that connected rural and urban settings, facilitating the transmission of rituals and practices between these two spheres. Finally, both the introduction and the final chapter discuss the concept of “rural religion” and its applicability to the sphere of Late Antiquity. This volume provides a much-needed resource for students and scholars of religion in Late Antique Iberia, and in the post-Roman world more broadly, as well as anyone working on rural religion in the ancient, Late Antique and Medieval worlds.

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Listado de artículos

• • Religion in rural in late antique Iberia. An introduction

    José Carlos López Gómez, Antón Alvar Nuño

    

  • Spontaneous worship or control of piety: pilgrims of proximity in late antique Hispania

    Pablo de la Cruz Díaz Martínez

    

  • Transhumance and devotions: shepherds and their saints in a rural territory. A case study from southern Italy (Gargano)

    Laura Carnevale

    

  • Servitude and salvation: the church in rural Hispania

    David Addison

    

  • Christian worship in rural Hispania: re-evaluating archaeological evidence on oratories, mausolea and churches in late antique villas

    Alexandra Chavarría i Arnau

    

  • Cemeteries, churches and other religious manifestations in the late Roman and Visigothic rural environment of the middle Ebro valley: an archaeological approach

    Pilar Diarte Blasco, Marta Pérez Polo

    

  • “Sacrarium nullo paratu extrinsecus”: the slow arrival of christianity in the Lusitanian countryside

    André Carneiro, Mónica Rolo, Pedro Trapero Fernández

    

  • Managing death in visigothic Iberia (6th–7th centuries): religious and institutional issues

    Pablo Poveda Arias

    

  • The ecclesiastical criticism of rural priests in Hispania during late antiquity

    Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez

    

  • Pimenius and his network: the glocal dimension of rural iberian churches

    Antón Alvar Nuño, José Carlos López Gómez

    

  • The agenda of saintmakers. The case of the “Vita Aemiliani” in visigothic Hispania

    Santiago Castellanos García

    

  • Metaphorical landscapes in rural Hispania. The transformation of religious geographies in visigothic hagiography

    Clelia Martínez Maza, Rocío del Carmen Suárez Vallejo

    

  • Exploring the genealogy of ““rural religion”” between the cult of ““nature”” and subaltern religion. A history of religions perspective

    Chiara Cremonesi