Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 14 April 2023
- 20 April 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781009278959
- 9781009278973
- 9781009278942
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.89kg, 414 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.796kg, 414 Pages
- Subjects:
- Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
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- Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
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Book description
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.
Reviews
‘This remarkable and important book offers a valuable and necessary deepening of our understanding of early Christian monasticism by turning our attention again and again to the social-material-economic dimensions of that world. The exacting and painstaking scholarship found throughout this book reveals how much we can learn by taking seriously the eloquence of the hidden, the obscure, and the minute: papyri, pottery shards, barely legible inscriptions, paleobotanical evidence, the ghostly presence of ancient waterways, and so much more. It is hard not to marvel at the imaginative reach required to build an entire world out of this fragmentary evidence and to appreciate the immense effort undertaken to do so.’
Doug Christie Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly
‘Well-written and accompanied by images, tables, a rich bibliographical list and other tools, the book is a useful tool both for historians and theologians and should surely constitute a book to read for any researcher interested in the field.’
Iuliu-Marius Morariu Source: Anuario de la Historia de Iglesia
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