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1 online resource (viii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE ENCROACHING DESERT -- Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Mathilde van Dijk -- HAGIOGRAPHY AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT: MEMORIES, INVENTIONS, AND LANDSCAPES -- David Frankfurter -- BRINGING HOME THE HOMELESS: LANDSCAPE AND HISTORY IN EGYPTIAN HAGIOGRAPHY -- Jacques van der Vliet -- SAVING HISTORY? EGYPTIAN HAGIOGRAPHY IN ITS SPACE AND TIME -- Peter van Minnen -- DESERT, CITY, AND COUNTRYSIDE IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION -- Claudia Rapp -- THE USES OF THE DESERT IN THE SIXTH-CENTURY WEST -- Conrad Leyser -- COLLECTING THE DESERT IN THE CAROLINGIAN WEST -- Lynda L. Coon -- THE FRANCISCAN HERMIT: SEEKER, PRISONER, REFUGEE -- Bert Roest -- EX VITA PATRUM FORMATUR VITA FRATRUM: THE APPROPRIATION OF THE DESERT FATHERS IN THE AUGUSTINIAN MONASTICISM OF THE LATER MIDDLE AGES -- Eric L. Saak -- NIKOLAUS OF FL220;E (8224; 1487): PHYSIOGNOMIES OF A LATE MEDIEVAL ASCETIC -- Gabriela Signori -- DISCIPLES OF THE DEEP DESERT: WINDESHEIM BIOGRAPHERS AND THE IMITATION OF THE DESERT FATHERS -- Mathilde van Dijk -- INDEX OF NAMES -- ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS |
| Summary |
This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional (pagan) religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Christian hagiography.
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Christianity and other religions -- Egyptian.
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Christian saints -- Egypt
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Desert Fathers.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Angelology & Demonology.
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Christian hagiography
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Christian saints
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Christianity
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Desert Fathers
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Egyptians -- Religion
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Interfaith relations
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Hagiografi.
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Egypt
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dijkstra, Jitse H. F
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Dijk, Mathilde van
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| ISBN |
9789047411628 |
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9047411625 |
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1281458066 |
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9781281458063 |
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6611458069 |
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9786611458065 |
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