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Chapter 17. Inscribed Identities: Prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the Early Byzantine and Medieval Periods
Paul C. Dilley
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Monastery of Apa Shenoute, popularly known as the White Monastery, is one of only a few major ascetic communities across the Mediterranean world to have existed continuously from late antiquity through the medieval period...
Author
Paul C. Dilley
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.217-229
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.17
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23740
Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineCoptic inscriptionsDayr al-Abyaḍ (Sūhāj, Egypt)

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Chapter 17. Inscribed Identities: Prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the Early Byzantine and Medieval Periods