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ISBN
9781009278942

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009278940
ISBN-13
9781009278942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11075286695

Product Key Features

Book Title
Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine
Number of Pages
414 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Ancient / General, Christianity / Denominations
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Author
Louise Blanke
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.9 in
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in

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LCCN
2023-011167
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, Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
271.00932
Table Of Content
Introduction: the monastic economies in late antique Egypt and Palestine: past, present and future Louise Blanke and Jennifer Cromwell; Part I. The Monastic Estate: 2. Monastic estates in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina (Fourth-Ninth Centuries) Basema Hamarneh; 3. Monastic estates in transition from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: evidence from Aphrodito Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello; 4. The naqlun fathers and their business affairs: private assets and activities of the monks in a semi-anchorite community in the late antique fayum Tomasz Derda and Joanna Wegner; Part II. Production and Consumption of Food and Material Goods: 5. Monastic vintages: the economic role of wine in Egyptian monasteries in the sixth-eighth centuries Dorota Dzierzbicka; 6. Cooking, baking and serving: a window into the kitchen of Egyptian monastic households and the archaeology of cooking Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom; 7. The refectory and the kitchen in the early Byzantine monastery of tell bi'a (Syria): the Egyptian and Palestinian connections Gábor Kalla; 8. It's a dung job: exploring fuel disc production in Egyptian monasteries Mennat-Allah El Dorry; 9. Illuminating the scriptorium: monastic book production at the medieval monastery of St Michael Andrea Myers Achi; Part III. Monastic Encounters: Travel, Pilgrimage, and Donations: 10. Distinguishing offerings from blessings in early Byzantine Monasticism: The significance of P. Ness. III 79 (c. 600 CE) Daniel F. Caner; 11. Staple for body and soul working at and visiting the upper Egyptian monastery deir anba hadra Lena Sophie Krastel, Sebastian Olschok and Tonio Sebastian Richter; 12. The monastic landscape of mount Nebo: an economic pattern in the province of Arabia Davide Bianchi; 13. Travel in the texts: monastic journeys in late antique Egypt Paula Tutty.
Synopsis
Reveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as 'isolated'. Draws on the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological remains and brings together scholars from across traditional disciplinary divides., 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.
LC Classification Number
BX2734.M66 2023

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