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The monastic landscape of late antique Egypt : an archaeological reconstruction /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Monasteries > Egypt.
Coptic monasteries.
Cultural landscapes > Egypt.
Christian antiquities > Egypt.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Monasticism and religious orders > Egypt > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Monastic archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • Archaeology and 20th century perceptions of the monastic landscape
  • An ecohistory of the Egyptian landscape
  • Late antique documentary evidence and the monastic landscape
  • Telling stories about the Egyptian monastic landscape
  • The archaeology of late antique buildings in Egypt
  • Looking at Egypt's monastic built environments.