TY  - BOOK
AU  - Choat,Malcolm
AU  - Giorda,Mariachiara
TI  - Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism
T2  - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series
SN  - 9789004336506
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Coptic language-History
KW  - Coptic monasticism and religious orders-Egypt
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎List of Contributors -- ‎Chapter 1. Avant Propos (Larsen) -- ‎Chapter 2. Communicating Monasticism: Reading and Writing Monastic texts in Late Antique Egypt (Choat and Giorda) -- ‎Chapter 3. Monastic Letters on Papyrus from Late Antique Egypt (Choat) -- ‎Chapter 4. From Textual to Ritual Practice: Written Media and Authority in Shenoute's Canons (Dilley) -- ‎Chapter 5. Monastic Wills: The Continuation of Late Roman Legal Tradition? (Garel and Nowak) -- ‎Chapter 6. Writing Monastic Testaments: A Communication from Generation to Generation (Giorda) -- ‎Chapter 7. The Wisdom of the Wall: Innovation in Monastic Epigraphy (van der Vliet) -- ‎Chapter 8. Writing and Monastic Doctrine (Vecoli) -- ‎Chapter 9. Monastic Graffiti in Context: The Temple of Seti I at Abydos (Westerfeld) -- ‎Chapter 10. Biblical Recitations and Their Function in the Piety of Monastic Egypt (Wipszycka) -- ‎Index of Modern Authors -- ‎Index of Biblical References -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎Index of People, Places, and Subjects
N2  - The presence and practice of writing and modes of communication within late antique Egyptian monasticism is examined in a volume which addresses monks as letter writers, copyists, readers, and teachers, and the symbolic and spiritual value of the written word
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