Author : William Lyster
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
St. Paul is generally considered the first Christian hermit, and the monastery built around his cave in Egypt is one of the very oldest. This sumptuous volume grew out of a conservation project of the monastery's superb wall paintings, which were broadly produced in two phases in the 13th and 18th centuries.
Author : Helen Waddell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472060085
The words of the 4th-century monastics who founded the Desert Rule
Author : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300092245
The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.
Author : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300212305
This landmark, interdisciplinary publication of the Red Monastery church, the most important Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, highlights its remarkable and newly conserved paintings and architectural sculpture.
Author : Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,86 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 : Peter Sheehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774167317
Presents a history of old Cairo, known by the Romans as Babylon, based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006, revealing continuous occupation extending from the 6th century BC to the present day.
Author : Antonio Gianfagna
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8868120674
Author : Mariam F. Ayad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9774167503
Egypt; religious life and customs; Copts; history; 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Author : Alastair Hamilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004498206
Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.
Author : Lois M. Farag
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134666845
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the heritage of Coptic Christians. The contributors combine academic expertise with intimate and practical knowledge of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic heritage. The chapters explore historical, cultural, literary and material aspects, including: the history of Christianity in Egypt, from the pre-Christian era to the modern day Coptic religious culture: theology, monasticism, spirituality, liturgy and music the Coptic language, linguistic expressions of the Coptic heritage and literary production in Greek, Coptic and Arabic . material culture and artistic expression of the Copts: from icons, mosaics and frescos to manuscript illuminations, woodwork and textiles. Students will find The Coptic Christian Heritage an invaluable introduction, whilst scholars will find its breadth provides a helpful context for specialised research.
