...This chapter focuses on pilgrims to the holy places and how they construed their sensory engagement with the holy sites. Significant here is their understanding of the “eye of faith,” an expression that stood for a broad range of visual and visionary experiences, including instances of conjuring...

... to the biblical holy places, pilgrims and sensory piety, and the culture of visibility. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented. Egypt Egyptian desert in ancient novels History of the Monks in Egypt The Historia monachorum anonymous biblical realism in Jerome on entering biblical time ———works...