Pilgerwege ins “Heilige Land”: Beiträge zur Religionsgeografie der Alten Kirche ed. by Ulrich Fellmeth, Ulrich Mell (review)

injunctions, and (often patrician) ancient attitudes toward work and religious entrepreneurs—perhaps inevitably, somewhat peripatetic in their chronological and geographical contexts—store up rich rewards for the later chapters (which constitute the real heart of the book). Its signal merit is to open up new vistas: not least, in its tantalizing pan-Eurasian coda (pp. 114–18), which leaves the reader with a sense that Brown—and no doubt many others—will continue to worry about the “poor” in late antiquity for some time to come.