Monastic education in late antiquity : the transformation of classical paideia /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	x, 399 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Monasticism and religious orders -- Education -- History. Monasticism and religious orders -- Early church. Monasticism and religious orders -- Education. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11783087

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Other authors / contributors:	Larsen, Lillian, 1963- editor. Rubenson, Samuel, editor.
ISBN:	9781107194953 1107194954 9781108173667 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-379) and indexes.
Summary:	"In the process of the Christianization of the Roman Empire and the transformation of Graeco-Roman classical culture into established Christian tradition, this volume considers the rise of monasticism as one of the most significant developments. As institutionalized monasticism emerged in the fourth century and manifested itself in a variety of forms over the next hundred years, the burgeoning movement increasingly engaged the attention of both emperors and bishops. By the sixth century, monasteries, and their leaders, were important actors in imperial, state and local politics. Within the Christian community itself, monasteries rapidly became centers for the transmission and transformation of culture and literature - a role they gradually lost in the West in the medieval period, and in the East, only in the last century"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108173667
Standard no.:	40028637309

Table of Contents:

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
Paideia, piety, and power: emperors and monks in Socrates' church history / Andreas Westergren
The educational and cultural background of Egyptian monks / Roger Bagnall
"Excavating the excavations" of early monastic education / Lillian I. 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 Johnsén
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 revision: the case of the Cassian and Palladius / Britt Dahlman
Production, distribution, and ownership of books in the monasteries of Upper Egypt: the evidence of the Nag Hammadi colophons / Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott
Greek thought, Arabic culture: approaching Arabic recensions of the Apophthegmata Patrum / Jason Zaborowski.

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