The Daily Life of Monks in the East and West (4th-10th Century). Volume II: Cross-Cutting Issues. BiEtud 170.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 22111 |
| Format | 21.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 494 p., in-text reproductions, bound. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707151 |
The collective program on the Daily Life of Monks in the East and West (4th-10th Century) finds its completion with this work. A first volume had exposed, by geographical region, the variety of sources allowing to study the daily life of monks of the first centuries. In a second conference held in Paris in 2011, a comparative perspective was applied to six transversal themes: the monastic landscape, the body of the monk, prayer, monastic sociologies, the productive economy, the establishment and diffusion of the norm. Twenty-two articles here question these realities common to Egyptian, Nubian, Syro-Palestinian, Byzantine, North African, Visigothic, Italian, Frankish and Germanic, Anglo-Saxon or Irish monks. If the approach has been able to vary the angles of approach, the ambition to embrace all forms of monastic life has been maintained. It has allowed us to grasp monasticism as a phenomenon that is not unique, but shaped by contact with its environment. Also, the daily life of monks, with its often repetitive and inconspicuous features, can illustrate, as if in a mirror, the history of the societies in which they have been able to inscribe themselves over time.
The collective program on the Daily Life of Monks in the East and West (4th-10th Century) finds its completion with this work. A first volume had exposed, by geographical region, the variety of sources allowing to study the daily life of monks of the first centuries. In a second conference held in Paris in 2011, a comparative perspective was applied to six transversal themes: the monastic landscape, the body of the monk, prayer, monastic sociologies, the productive economy, the establishment and diffusion of the norm. Twenty-two articles here question these realities common to Egyptian, Nubian, Syro-Palestinian, Byzantine, North African, Visigothic, Italian, Frankish and Germanic, Anglo-Saxon or Irish monks. If the approach has been able to vary the angles of approach, the ambition to embrace all forms of monastic life has been maintained. It has allowed us to grasp monasticism as a phenomenon that is not unique, but shaped by contact with its environment. Also, the daily life of monks, with its often repetitive and inconspicuous features, can illustrate, as if in a mirror, the history of the societies in which they have been able to inscribe themselves over time.