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Apa Mena
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Author : James Drescher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Apa Mena written by James Drescher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Al-Mîna (Egypt) categories.
Apa Mena
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Author : Saint Menas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Apa Mena written by Saint Menas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Abū Mīnā (Extinct city) categories.
The Cult Of The Seer In The Ancient Middle East
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Author : Violet MacDermot
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1971-01-01
The Cult Of The Seer In The Ancient Middle East written by Violet MacDermot and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Christianity And Monasticism In Middle Egypt
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Author : Gawdat Gabra
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2015-11-20
Christianity And Monasticism In Middle Egypt written by Gawdat Gabra and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-20 with Religion categories.
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Middle Egypt over the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic art and archaeology, architecture, language, and literature. The artistic heritage of monastic sites in the region is highlighted, attesting to their important legacies.
Pilgrimage And Holy Space In Late Antique Egypt
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Author : David Frankfurter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Pilgrimage And Holy Space In Late Antique Egypt written by David Frankfurter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with History categories.
This volume deals with the origins and rise of Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. Part One covers the major theoretical issues in the study of Coptic pilgrimage, such as sacred landscape and shrines' catchment areas, while Part Two examines native Egyptian and Egyptian Jewish pilgrimage practices. Part Three investigates six major shrines, from Philae's diverse non-Christian devotees to the great pilgrim center of Abu Mina and a Thecla shrine on its route. Part Four looks at such diverse pilgrims' rites as oracles, chant, and stational liturgy, while Part Five brings in Athanasius's and an anonymous hagiographer's perspectives on pilgrimage in Egypt. The volume includes illustrations of the Abu Mina site, pilgrims' ampules from the Thecla shrine, as well as several maps.
Transmitting And Circulating The Late Antique And Byzantine Worlds
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Transmitting And Circulating The Late Antique And Byzantine Worlds written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with History categories.
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness.
Writing And Holiness
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Author : Derek Krueger
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Writing And Holiness written by Derek Krueger and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Religion categories.
Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness probes saints' lives and hymns produced in the Greek East to reveal how the ascetic call to imitate Christ's humility rendered artistic and literary creativity problematic. In claiming authority and power, hagiographers appeared to violate the saintly practices that they sought to promote. Christian writers meditated within their texts on these tensions and ultimately developed a new set of answers to the question "What is an author?" Each of the texts examined here used writing as a technique for the representation of holiness. Some are narrative representations of saints that facilitate veneration; others are collections of accounts of miracles, composed to publicize a shrine. Rather than viewing an author's piety as a barrier to historical inquiry, Krueger argues that consideration of writing as a form of piety opens windows onto new modes of practice. He interprets Christian authors as participants in the religious system they described, as devotees, monastics, and faithful emulators of the saints, and he shows how their literary practice integrated authorship into other Christian practices, such as asceticism, devotion, pilgrimage, liturgy, and sacrifice. In considering the distinctly literary contributions to the formation of Christian piety in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness uncovers Christian literary theories with implications for both Eastern and Western medieval literatures.
Urban Centers And Rural Contexts In Late Antiquity
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Author : Thomas S. Burns
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Urban Centers And Rural Contexts In Late Antiquity written by Thomas S. Burns and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional perspective and around common themes. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts seeks to redress this omission. While ancient literature and the physical remains of cities attest to the power that urban values held over the lives of their inhabitants, the rural areas in which the majority of imperial citizens lived have not been well served by the historical record. Only recently have archeological excavations and integrated field surveys sufficiently enhanced our knowledge of the rural contexts to demonstrate the continuing interdependence of urban centers and rural communities in Late Antiquity. These new data call into question the conventional view that this interdependence progressively declined as a result of governmental crises, invasions, economic dislocation, and the success of Christianization. The essays in this volume require us to abandon the search for a single model of urban and rural change; to reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archeological museums; and to reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside. Deploying a wide range of material as well as literary evidence, the authors provide access not only into the world of élites, but also to the scarcely known lives of those without a voice in the literature, those men and women who worked in the shops, labored in the fields, and humbled themselves before their gods. They bring us closer to the complexity of life in late ancient communities and, in consequence, closer to both urban and rural citizens.
Christianizing Egypt
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Author : David Frankfurter
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Christianizing Egypt written by David Frankfurter and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.
Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture
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Author : Thelma K. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2000
Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture written by Thelma K. Thomas and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
Some of these sculptures were made for grand monumental tombs and commissioned by an urban, land-owning class with strong Hellenistic roots; others were made for smaller and less imposing monuments and commissioned by distinctly different clienteles from monasteries and towns, as well as by different socio-economic classes within the cities.".