Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 396 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781009278959
Content:
This book situates discussions of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine within the socio-economic world of the long Late Antiquity, from the golden age of monasticism into and well beyond the Arab conquest (fifth to tenth century). Its thirteen chapters present new research into the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological remains and move beyond traditional studies that have treated monastic communities as religious entities in physical seclusion from society. The volume brings together scholars working across traditional boundaries of subject and geography and explores a diverse range of topics from the production of food and wine to networks of scribes, patronage, and monastic visitation. As such, it paints a vivid picture of busy monastic lives dependent on and led in tandem with the non-monastic world.
Note:
This volume is the result of a conference organised by the editors and held on 16 and 17 March 2016 in Ertegun House, Oxford. Eighteen papers were presented at the conference, most of which have been included in the present volume. -- Preface
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009278973
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009278942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Monastic economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009278973
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mönchtum
;
Ordensleben
;
Politische Ökonomie
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1017/9781009278959
Author information:
Cromwell, Jennifer
