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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology

 

 

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]

Topics/Themes:

• The Coptic Church

• Monasteries and monasticism

• Babylon/Qasr al-Sham‘a

• Art and Material Culture

Readings:

• Sheehan, P. (2010). Babylon of Egypt: The archaeology of old Cairo and the origin of the city. Cairo, AUC Press. (Ch.3 “Diocletian and the Roman Fortress of Babylon)

• Bagnall, R. S. (1993). Egypt in late antiquity. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press. (Ch. 8)

• Kamil, J. (2002). Christianity in the land of the pharaohs : the Coptic Orthodox Church. London ; New York, Routledge. (Ch. 8 “Coptic Christianity Develops its Own Style”)

• Hedstrom, D. (2007). Divine Architects. Designing the monastic dwelling space. In Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700. R. Bagnall (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Essay #1 due in class 9/30

Document IconThe Making of Coptic Egypt.pdf