%0 eBook %A Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria. %I University of California Press %D 2005 %C Berkeley %G English %B Transformation of the classical heritage ; %@ 9780520931121 %@ 0520931122 %@ 1423745450 %@ 9781423745457 %T Encountering the sacred : the debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146987 %X This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time.