ISBN:
9781108989312
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (96 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
271.00902
Abstract:
This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Monasticism as a Genre of Society -- 2 The Monastery as a City -- Monastic Euergetism -- Economy and Law -- The Built Environment -- A Better City -- 3 Monks and Nuns in the City -- Eremitism and Its Audiences -- Your Neighbour, the Nun -- Monasticism Coming to Terms with the City -- Gangs of New Jerusalem -- 4 Monastic Learning -- We Don't Need No Education? -- Civic and Monastic Frames of Education -- Monastic Education with and without the City -- 5 Monasticism as an Afroeurasian Phenomenon -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements.
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