Rachel Banes and Andreas Rhoby
Far from embracing quiet reverence, Byzantine pilgrims were dynamic and expressive – actively engaging with the physical spaces they visited.
Key resources for these experiences include graffiti – the scratched, scrawled and painted inscriptions the “average” traveller could leave behind.
This discussion will centre pilgrims’ graffiti, presenting the results of the Epigraphies of Pious Travel project.
The inscriptions will be presented in a layered framework, considering how texts, places and people interacted in the creation of graffiti.