Research Catalog

Title

Writing and communication in early Egyptian monasticism / edited by Malcolm Choat, Maria Chiara Giorda.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Choat, Malcolm
• Giorda, Mariachiara

Description

xiii, 239 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; volume 9

Uniform Title

Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; v. 9.

Subject

• Coptic monasticism and religious orders > Egypt
• Coptic language > Usage
• Coptic language > History
• Literacy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Avant Propos / Lillian I. Larsen -- Communicating monasticism: reading and writing monastic texts in late antique egypt / Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda -- Monastic letters on papyrus from late antique Egypt / Malcolm Choat -- From textual to ritual practice: written media and authority in Shenoute's Canons / Paul Dilley -- Monastic wills: the continuation of late Roman legal tradition? / Esther Gareland and Maria Nowak -- Writing monastic testaments: a communication from generation to generation / Maria Chiara Giorda -- The wisdom of the wall: innovation in monastic epigraphy / Jacques van der Vliet -- Writing and monastic doctrine / Fabrizio Vecoli -- Monastic graffiti in context: the temple of Seti I at Abydos / Jennifer Westerfeld -- biblical recitations and their function in the piety of monastic Egypt / Ewa Wipszycka.

Call Number

JFE 17-10285

ISBN

• 9789004254657 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 900425465X (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016045152

OCLC

958780623

Title

Writing and communication in early Egyptian monasticism / edited by Malcolm Choat, Maria Chiara Giorda.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; volume 9

Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; v. 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Choat, Malcolm, editor.

Giorda, Mariachiara, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Writing and communication in early Egyptian monasticism Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004336506

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10285