Beginnings : who were the first monks? -- Desert fathers, pillar-saints and fasting -- The 'hermit craze' of the Middle Ages -- Herbs and health -- From field to table : the medieval monastic experience -- Medieval diets : the food landscape. How did medieval hermits survive on…
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The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and pass…
The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and pass…
How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and …
La fortune des grands monastères byzantins: fin du Xe-milieu du XIVe siècle
by Collège de France, Smyrlis, Kostis, Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance (Paris, France)., Association des amis, Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation byzantines
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Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. Here, she examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the 15th century.
Highly illustrated, this is the first published account of arguably one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Scotland in the last 30 years.
The Archaeological Remains of Monastic Settlements in South Sinai in the Byzantine Period.
