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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.
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.
Price: $278.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
27 October 2006
ISBN: 9789004155305
Format: Hardcover
‘There is much of interest in this collection of essays. [..] The first three papers work particularly well together, introducing the reader to the sophisticated debate over the use of Egyptian hagiography in the reconstruction of history. The other papers, while more tenuously bound together by a common interest in the continuing influence of the Egyptian ascetic tradition in the western Middle Ages, offer valuable evidence and intriguing methodological insights.’
James E. Goehring, College of William and Mary, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
James E. Goehring, College of William and Mary, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
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.
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.