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17 papers from a symposium held at the Frederick R Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota in 2000 which accompanied an exhibition of monastic artefacts and manuscripts. Subjects include: the use of space in monasteries, ascetic practice in Egypt, monasteries and urban development in early medieval Ireland, the Makkurian monasteries of Nubia, Bordesley Abbey, Cluny, women, Athonite monasteries and Benedictine architecture.

Subtitled Continuity and change in city life from late antiquity to the present' this first report' presents a summary of the University of Minnesota's study and excavations in the town of Akhmim. Areas covered include discussion of the site and the history of the project, excavation, architecture, the cemetery, late Roman and Islamic pottery, Egyptian slip wares, and pottery evidence for changes over time.