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The monastic landscape of late antique Egypt : an archaeological reconstruction

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L., author

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Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. Brooks Hedstrom then provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Christian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. Drawing upon critical theories in landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, Brooks Hedstrom looks at domestic settlements of non-monastic and monastic settlements to posit what features makes monastic settlements unique, thus offering a new history of monasticism in Egypt.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Monasteries Egypt. / Coptic monasteries. / Cultural landscapes Egypt. / Christian antiquities Egypt. / Monasticism and religious orders Egypt History. / Egypt Antiquities.
• ISBN: 9781107161818, 1107161819

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BR133.E31 B76 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL