Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders of their urban centres in the Nile Valley. Regarded as angels and warriors, the wisdom of the Desert Ascetics formed part of the oral and literary tradition of wonder-working saints whose commitment to asceticism was legendary and inspirational. This book grounds the mythologized stories of Desert Ascetics in the materiality of the desert, demonstrating the closeness of the desert, the connections between non-monastic and monastic communities, and the exciting insights into lived monasticism through the archaeology of monasticism in Egypt.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2023
Copyrightjahr
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-167-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-081-7
ePub ISBN
9781802700824
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Past Imperfect
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
140
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Chapter 1 Desert Ascetics as Early Christian Celebrities Kein Zugriff Seiten 17 - 28
Chapter 2 What Did the Desert Ascetics Teach and How Did They Live? Kein Zugriff Seiten 29 - 42
Chapter 3 Who Was the First Desert Ascetic? Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 60
Chapter 4 Monastic Literature, Letters, and Desert Ascetics Kein Zugriff Seiten 61 - 78
Chapter 5 Archaeology of Early Egyptian Monasticism Kein Zugriff Seiten 79 - 94
Chapter 6 Archaeology of Monastic Places Kein Zugriff Seiten 95 - 110
Chapter 7 Monastic Archaeology and Monastic Things Kein Zugriff Seiten 111 - 122
Conclusion Reassembling a History of the Desert Ascetics of Egypt Kein Zugriff Seiten 123 - 126
