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OverviewEgypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders of their urban centres in the Nile Valley. Regarded as angels and warriors, the wisdom of the Desert Ascetics formed part of the oral and literary tradition of wonder-working saints whose commitment to asceticism was legendary and inspirational. This book grounds the mythologized stories of Desert Ascetics in the materiality of the desert, demonstrating the closeness of the desert, the connections between non-monastic and monastic communities, and the exciting insights into lived monasticism through the archaeology of monasticism in Egypt. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom (Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Brandeis University)Publisher: Arc Humanities Press Imprint: Arc Humanities Press Edition: New edition ISBN: 9781641891677ISBN 10: 164189167 Pages: 140 Publication Date: 30 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Desert Ascetics as Early Christian Celebrities Chapter 3: What Did the Desert Ascetics Teach and How Did They Live? Chapter 4: The Problem of a Saintly Reputation: Antony and Athanasius Chapter 5: Other Desert Ascetics and Other Sources Chapter 6: Grounding the Desert Ascetics in Archaeology Chapter 7: Archaeology of Place: Where Desert Ascetics Lived Chapter 8: Monastic Archaeology and Monastic Things Chapter 9: Conclusion: Reassembling the History of Desert AsceticsReviewsAuthor InformationDarlene L. Brooks Hedstrom is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. She worked at the Monastery of John the Little in Wadi Natrun, Egypt, as the Chief Archaeologist and is currently the Senior Archaeological Consultant for the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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