The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt(English, Hardcover, Brooks Hedstrom Darlene L.)

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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt(English, Hardcover, Brooks Hedstrom Darlene L.) is written by Brooks Hedstrom Darlene L. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107161819 (ISBN 10) and 9781107161818 (ISBN 13).

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.