Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-ix

Tables

pp x-x

Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

1 - The Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future

pp 1-38

I. - The Monastic Estate

pp 39-126

2 - Monastic Estates in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina (Fourth–Ninth Centuries)

pp 41-75

3 - Monastic Estates in Transition from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Evidence from Aphrodito

pp 76-98

4 - The Naqlun Fathers and Their Business Affairs: Private Assets and Activities of the Monks in a Semi-Anchoritic Community in the Late Antique Fayum

pp 99-126

II. - Production and Consumption of Food and Material Goods

pp 127-268

5 - Monastic Vintages: The Economic Role of Wine in Egyptian Monasteries in the Sixth to Eighth Centuries

pp 129-151

6 - Cooking, Baking, and Serving: A Window into the Kitchen of Egyptian Monastic Households and the Archaeology of Cooking

pp 152-180

7 - The Refectory and the Kitchen in the Early Byzantine Monastery of Tell Bi’a (Syria): The Egyptian and Palestinian Connections

pp 181-211

8 - It’s a Dung Job: Exploring Fuel Disc Production in Egyptian Monasteries

pp 212-232

9 - Illuminating the Scriptoria: Monastic Book Production at the Medieval Monastery of St Michael

pp 233-268

III. - Monastic Encounters: Travel, Pilgrimage, and Donations

pp 269-386

10 - Distinguishing Offerings from Blessings in Early Byzantine Monasticism: The Significance of P.Ness. III 79 (ca. 600 AD)

pp 271-297

Appendix: Transliteration and Translation of P.Ness. III 79

pp 291-297

11 - Staple for Body and Soul: Working at and Visiting the Upper Egyptian Monastery Deir Anba Hadra

pp 298-333

12 - The Monastic Landscape of Mount Nebo: An Economic Pattern in the Province of Arabia

pp 334-358

13 - Travel in the Texts: Monastic Journeys in Late Antique Egypt

pp 359-386

Glossary

pp 387-389

Index

pp 390-396