Abstract:Among the early medieval names inscribed on the walls at the shrine of S. Michele at Monte Sant’Angelo sul Gargano are a small number from Anglo-Saxon visitors, all but one written in runic script. This article employs those names as a lens through which to explore issues of devotion and identity in the context of pilgrimage and travel, by focusing on the particular physical, religious and performative contexts which led to their production. Firstly, it examines the spiritual and religious significance of the graffiti by considering the multiple meanings that inscribing or reading such inscriptions might have held for contemporaries. Secondly, it explores the opportunity that the graffiti offer for investigating aspects of identity and belonging, arising as they do from situations in which long-distance visitors found themselves far away from home and where facets of commonality and alterity could be brought into sharp focus. By examining these themes in relation to the surviving names, it is possible to bring to light the range of meanings that the act(s) of writing inscriptions at Monte Gargano might have held for contemporaries within medieval western Europe, and what might have been understood by visitors reading the inscriptions that others had left behind.

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在墙上书写：Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano（普利亚大区）的盎格鲁撒克逊人和涂鸦的精神和社会意义

摘要：在圣安杰洛南加尔加诺山圣米歇尔神殿墙壁上刻有的中世纪早期名字中，有一小部分来自盎格鲁-撒克逊人的游客，但只有一个是用符文书写的。本文将这些名字作为一个镜头，通过关注导致它们产生的特定物理、宗教和表演背景，探索朝圣和旅行背景下的奉献和身份问题。首先，它通过考虑铭刻或阅读此类铭文可能对同时代人具有的多重意义来检验涂鸦的精神和宗教意义。其次，它探索了涂鸦为调查身份和归属感提供的机会，远距离的游客发现自己离家很远，在这种情况下，共同性和异质性的各个方面都可以成为焦点。通过检查这些与现存名字相关的主题，可以揭示在加尔加诺山的铭文行为对中世纪西欧同时代人可能具有的意义范围，以及可能被理解的内容参观者阅读其他人留下的铭文。