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4 - The Archaeology of the Earliest Monasteries

from Part I - The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom  and
Hendrik Dey
Edited by
Alison I. Beach  and
Isabelle Cochelin
Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Intensive regional surveys and a growing interest in monastic archaeology are providing new evidence for the history of the earliest monastic settlement in both East and West, and demonstrating above all the enormous variety in the morphology of monastic structures and the contexts in which early monastics lived.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 73 - 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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