Death of the Desert : Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age / Christine Luckritz Marquis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marquis, Christine Luckritz, author.

Series:

Divinations.

Divinations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, -412.

Theophilus.

Monasticism and religious orders--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Deserts--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Deserts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

Summary:

Death of the Desert offers a fresh examination of Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria's banishment of the so-called Tall Brothers, four Origenist monks who led monastic communities in the western Egyptian desert, and brings into dialogue narrative strands that have largely been separated in the scholarly tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Imagining and Inhabiting the Desert

Chapter 2. Psalmody and Prayer as Ascetic Weapons

Chapter 3. Monks and Memory Sanctions

Chapter 4. The Desert and the Discourse on Barbarians

Chapter 5. Reordering the Desert

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Luckritz Marquis, Christine Death of the Desert

ISBN:

9780812298239

OCLC:

1296428378