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The monastic landscape of late antique Egypt : an archaeological reconstruction / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Wittenberg University, Ohio.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection BR133.E31 B76 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monasteries--Egypt.
- Monasteries.
- Coptic monasteries.
- Cultural landscapes--Egypt.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Christian antiquities--Egypt.
- Christian antiquities.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- History.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 426 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107161818
- 1107161819
- OCLC:
- 974865692
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