Publication

2017 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004254657
  • ISBN-10900425465X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016045152
  • OCLC Control Number958780623
  • Better World Books9789004254657
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBX137.2.W757 2017
  • LCCBX137.2 .W757 2017

Description

"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."--

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