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Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism

by Malcolm Choat , Mariachiara Giorda
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004254657
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 242
  • Original Price: GBP 120.8
  • Language: English
  • Edition: LAM
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christianity / General

As senders of letters, copyists of literary texts, compilers of accounts, readers, and teachers, the monks of late antique Egypt articulated their interactions with their ascetic and secular environments via their role as authors, scribes, and owners of written text. This volume edited by Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda examines the presence and practice of writing, modes of written communication, and the symbolic and spiritual value of the written word in monastic communities. Contributions cover evidence from papyri and inscriptions to literature transmitted in manuscripts, positioned within the shift in recent scholarship away from literature such as hagiography as a source of positivistic history, towards evidence that derives more directly from the monk or period in focus.

Maria Chiara Giorda, PhD (2007), is a research fellow at the Dipartimento di Studi Storici, University of Torino, and Assistant Professor in History of Christianity and History of Religions. She has published monographs and many articles on Egyptian monasticism.

Malcolm Choat, PhD (2000), is Associate Professor at the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney, and has published extensively on monasticism and the papyrological evidence for early Christianity in Egypt, including Belief and Cult in Fourth Century Papyri (Brepols, 2006).


Contributors are: Malcolm Choat, Paul Dilley, Esther Garel, Maria Chiara Giorda, Lillian Larsen, Maria Nowak, Fabrizio Vecoli, Jacques van der Vliet, Jennifer Westerfeld, and Ewa Wipszycka.

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