The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781316614082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 454 str.

Ohio) Brooks Hedstrom Darlene L. (Wittenberg University

Opis

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt's monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

Recenzje

'Brooks Hedstrom's work is a compelling assessment that displays the diversity of monastic spaces in Egypt and undermines previous pictures that relied on simple narratives, derived from the literary material, of a divide between anchorite and organized monasticism in terms of their built spaces.' Gareth Sears, Medieval Archaeology

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Monastic archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 2. Archaeology and twentieth century perceptions of the monastic landscape; 3. An ecohistory of the Egyptian landscape; 4. Late antique documentary evidence and the monastic landscape; 5. Telling stories about the Egyptian monastic landscape; 6. The archaeology of late antique buildings in Egypt; 7. Looking at Egypt's monastic built environments; Conclusions.