Monastic education in late antiquity : the transformation of classical paideia /
edited by Lillian I. Larsen, Samuel Rubenson
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
- x, 399 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Early monasticism and the concept of a "school" / Samuel Rubenson -- Translating paideia : education in the Greek and Latin versions of the Life of Anthony / Peter Gemeinhardt -- The role of education in the church histories of Socrates and Sozomen / Andreas Westergren -- The educational and cultural background of Egyptian monks / Roger Bagnall -- 'Excavating the excavations' of early monastic education / Lillian Larsen -- Homer and Menandri Sententiae in upper Egyptian monastic settings / Anastasia Maravela -- The school of Didymus the Blind in the light of the Tura find / Blossom Stefaniw -- Affecting rhetoric : the adoption of Ethopoeia in Evagrius of Pontus' ascetic program / Ellen Muehlberger -- Classical education in sixth century Coptic monasticism : the example of Rufus of Shotep / Mark Sheridan -- The virtue of being uneducated : attitudes towards classical paideia in early monasticism and ancient philosophy / Henrik Rydell Johnsen -- Plato between school and cell : biography and competition in the fifth-century philosophical field / Arthur Urbano -- Pythagorean traditions in early Christian asceticism / Daniele Pevarello -- Textual fluidity and authorial revisions of early Christian texts. The case of the Historia Lausiaca / Britt Dahlman -- Production, distribution, and ownership of books in the monasteries of Upper Egypt : the evidence of the Nag Hammadi colophons / Hugo Lundhaug, Lance Jenott -- Greek thought, Arabic culture : approaching the Arabic recensions of the Apophthegmata Patrum / Jason Zaborowski.
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Monasticism and religious orders--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.Monasticism and religious orders--Education--History.Monasticism and religious orders Early church.