Save
Save chapter to my Bookmarks
Cite
Cite this chapter
Print this chapter
Share
Share a link to this chapter
Chapter 15. An Eclipsed History: Toward a Framework for the Medieval History of the Red Monastery
Mark N. Swanson
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
In their excellent entry on the history of the Red Monastery in The Coptic Encyclopedia, René-Georges Coquin and Maurice Martin made the astute comment that “this monastery always remained in the shadow of its celebrated neighbor [the White Monastery], so much so that its history is somewhat eclipsed...
Author
Mark N. Swanson
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.193-201
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.15
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23738
Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineCoptic inscriptionsByzantine Empire--Church history

Access to this content is only available to subscribers. If you are at an institution that currently subscribes to the A&AePortal, please login to your VPN before accessing the site. If you have already purchased an individual subscription, please sign in to your account to access the content. Learn more about subscriptions.

Get access

List of illustrations

Chapter 15. An Eclipsed History: Toward a Framework for the Medieval History of the Red Monastery
Previous chapter