Coptic

ISBN: 9789774161063
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
A large and beautifully illustrated work, this book covers Egypt's most significant churches geographically, church by church. 300 full colour photographs accompany the text, which describes the history, architectural development and icons hous... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842172544
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph
Volume: 15
Volume 2 completes the account of the literary texts primarily deriving from the Manichaean community in ancient Kellis. House 3 and surrounding domestic buildings have yielded up important texts which reflect the faith and practice of lay foll... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292706170
Published by : University of Texas Press
Throughout the fourteenth century AD waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742107
Published by : Left Coast Press
There is generally a gap in the historiography of ancient Egypt between classical writers and sources relating to the travels of later Europeans studying Egyptian culture. This book seeks to fill that gap by collating and consulting evidence fr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691092720
Published by : Princeton University Press
Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available - the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unhar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691092621
Published by : Princeton University Press
A companion to Cohen's other volume, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt , the book presents more than ninety letters, alms lists, donor lists, and other related documents from the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691092713
Published by : Princeton University Press
A companion to Cohen's other volume, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt , the book presents more than ninety letters, alms lists, donor lists, and other related documents from the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780472114740
Published by : University of Michigan Press
In the early 4th century the health care system that developed within monastic communities was without precedent but it was to transform how people received care and treatment throughout the Mediterranean and Europe in Late Antiquity. In focusi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895003981
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Spätantike-Frühes Christentum-Byzanz
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