The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt : An Archaeological Reconstruction (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Monastic archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 2. Archaeology and twentieth century perceptions of the monastic landscape; 3. An ecohistory of the Egyptian landscape; 4. Late antique documentary evidence and the monastic landscape; 5. Telling stories about the Egyptian monastic landscape; 6. The archaeology of late antique buildings in Egypt; 7. Looking at Egypt's monastic built environments; Conclusions.