The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt
An Archaeological Reconstruction
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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt
An Archaeological Reconstruction
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the text
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- One Monastic Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Two Archaeology and Twentieth-Century Perceptions of the Monastic Landscape
- Three An Ecohistory and Geohistory of the Egyptian Landscape
- Four Late Antique Documentary Evidence and the Monastic Landscape
- Five Telling Stories about the Egyptian Monastic Landscape
- Six The Archaeology of Late Antique Buildings in Egypt
- Seven Looking at Egypt’s Monastic Built Environments
- Conclusions
- Notes
- List of Illustrations: Credits and Information
- References
- Index