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基本説明
This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.
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This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional ("pagan") religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.
Contributors include: Lynda L. Coon, Mathilde van Dijk, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, David Frankfurter, Conrad Leyser, Peter van Minnen, Claudia Rapp, Bert Roest, Eric L. Saak, Gabriela Signori, and Jacques van der Vliet.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Encroaching Desert, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Mathilde van Dijk
Hagiography and the Reconstruction of Local Religion in Late Antique Egypt: Memories, Inventions, and Landscapes, David Frankfurter
Bringing Home the Homeless: Landscape and History in Egyptian Hagiography, Jacques van der Vliet
Saving History? Egyptian Hagiography in Its Space and Time, Peter van Minnen
Desert, City, and Countryside in the Early Christian Imagination, Claudia Rapp
The Uses of the Desert in the Sixth-Century West, Conrad Leyser
Collecting the Desert in the Carolingian West, Lynda L. Coon
The Franciscan Hermit: Seeker, Prisoner, Refugee, Bert Roest
Ex vita patrum formatur vita fratrum: The Appropriation of the Desert Fathers in the Augustinian Monasticism of the Later Middle Ages, Eric L. Saak
Nikolaus of Flüe († 1487): Physiognomies of a Late Medieval Ascetic, Gabriela Signori
Disciples of the Deep Desert: Windesheim Biographers and the Imitation of the Desert Fathers, Mathilde van Dijk
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