Death of the desert : monastic memory and the loss of Egypt's golden age /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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