The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West / edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Han van Dijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dijk, Han van, editor.

Dijkstra, Jitse H. F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian hagiography.

Christian saints--Egypt.

Christian saints.

Christianity and other religions--Egyptian.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional ("pagan") religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West. Contributors include: Lynda L. Coon, Mathilde van Dijk, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, David Frankfurter, Conrad Leyser, Peter van Minnen, Claudia Rapp, Bert Roest, Eric L. Saak, Gabriela Signori, and Jacques van der Vliet.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Encroaching Desert, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Mathilde van Dijk

Hagiography and the Reconstruction of Local Religion in Late Antique Egypt: Memories, Inventions, and Landscapes, David Frankfurter

Bringing Home the Homeless: Landscape and History in Egyptian Hagiography, Jacques van der Vliet

Saving History? Egyptian Hagiography in Its Space and Time, Peter van Minnen

Desert, City, and Countryside in the Early Christian Imagination, Claudia Rapp

The Uses of the Desert in the Sixth-Century West, Conrad Leyser

Collecting the Desert in the Carolingian West, Lynda L. Coon

The Franciscan Hermit: Seeker, Prisoner, Refugee, Bert Roest

Ex vita patrum formatur vita fratrum: The Appropriation of the Desert Fathers in the Augustinian Monasticism of the Later Middle Ages, Eric L. Saak

Nikolaus of Flüe († 1487): Physiognomies of a Late Medieval Ascetic, Gabriela Signori

Disciples of the Deep Desert: Windesheim Biographers and the Imitation of the Desert Fathers, Mathilde van Dijk

Index of Names.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-45806-6

9786611458065

90-474-1162-5

OCLC:

238234749

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047411628 DOI