Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts
Author : Otto Friedrich August Meinardus
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Coptic monasticism and religious orders
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Author : Otto Friedrich August Meinardus
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Coptic monasticism and religious orders
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Author : Otto Freidrich August Meinardus
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Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Otto Friedrich August Meinardis
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Coptic monasticism and religious orders
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Author : Otto F. A. Meinardus
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
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In the fourth century A.D. the deserts of Egypt saw the birth of Christian monasticism under the tutelage of the desert fathers. Since then the movement has spread around the world. This standard work traces the historical development of all the currently inhabited Coptic monasteries, drawing on a wide variety of sources, including accounts by early Western travelers.
Author : James E. Goehring
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781563382697
Through rigorous examination of papyrological documentary sources, archaeology, and traditional literary sources, James Goehring gradually forces a new direction in understanding the evolution of monasticism. He ably transforms these sources into a clear narrative, thereby infusing the history of Egyptian monasticism with renewed energy.
Author : Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1108696414
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.
Author : Derwas James Chitty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Religion
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Author : Gregory Telepneff
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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Author : John Wortley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108703727
Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Scêtê), it asks how the monks prayed, ate, drank and slept, as well as how they discharged their obligations both to earn their own living by handiwork and to exercise hospitality. It also discusses the monks' degree of literacy, as well as women in the desert and Pachomius and his monasteries in Upper Egypt. Written in straightforward language, the book is accessible to all students and scholars, and anyone with a general interest in this important and fascinating phenomenon.
Author : Michael W. McClellan
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
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Christian monasticism began in Egypt over 1600 years ago, in the desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, and spread through various Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions. In the deserts of Egypt, sixteen centuries after the Desert Fathers, monasticism still thrives, and it is to these isolated monasteries in one of the world's most inhospitable environments that photographer Michael McClellan turns his lens. McClellan reveals the quiet, spiritual world of today's desert fathers in the Coptic monasteries of the Red Sea Mountains, Wadi al-Natrun, and Upper Egypt, and in the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai. Illuminating the photographs are extracts from The Paradise of the Fathers, tales of the Desert Fathers collected by Saint Palladius.