The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15530-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dijkstra, Jitse

Dijk, Han van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2005) in Religious Studies, University of Groningen, is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. His principal field of interest is Late Antiquity, and in particular Egypt and its papyrological sources.
Mathilde van Dijk, Ph.D. (2000) in Medieval Studies, University of Groningen, is Associate Professor in the History of Christianity and Gender Studies at the same institution. Her research focuses on late medieval intellectual history, and in particular on the Devotio Moderna and virginity studies.