The cave church of Paul the Hermit at the monastery of St. Paul, Egypt /

The cave church of Paul the Hermit at the monastery of St. Paul, Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lyster, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Cairo, Egypt : Yale University Press ; American Research Center in Egypt, [2008]
Subjects:
Monastery of St. Paul the Hermit (Egypt)
Coptic Church > Egypt > History.
Monasteries > Egypt.
Christian antiquities > Egypt.
Church architecture > Egypt > History.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Preserving the past for the future : the American Research Center in Egypt / Gerry D. Scott III
  • The historical relationship between the monasteries of St. Antony and St. Paul / Maximous El-Anthony
  • In the footsteps of St. Antony / Robert K. Vincent
  • The monastery of St. Paul the Hermit / William Lyster
  • Paul the Hermit and his monastery : generation, imitation, and reception
  • Jerome's Life of Paul and the promotion of Egyptian monasticism in the West / Stephen J. Davis
  • The monastery of St. Paul in historical context / Mark N. Swanson
  • Patriarchs, archons, and the eighteenth-century resurgence of the Coptic community / Febe Armanios
  • Pilgrims, missionaries, and scholars : western descriptions of the monastery of St. Paul from the late fourteenth century to the early twentieth century / Alastair Hamilton
  • New research from the library of the monastery of St. Paul / Gawdat Gabra
  • The heritage transformed : The cave church of St. Paul
  • New archaeological evidence for the architectural development of the cave church / Peter Sheehan
  • The conservation of the mill building, refectory, and cave church / Michael Jones
  • Conservation of the wall paintings in the church of St. Paul / Luigi De Cesaris, Alberto Sucato, and William Lyster
  • The medieval paintings in the cave church, phase one : continuity / Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • The medieval paintings in the cave church, phase two : tradition and transformation / Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • Reviving a lost tradition : the eighteenth-century paintings in the cave church, context and iconography / William Lyster
  • Reshaping a lost tradition : the eighteenth-century paintings in the cave church, style and technique / William Lyster
  • The Coptic and Arabic inscriptions in the cave church / Gawdat Gabra
  • Conclusion / William Lyster
  • Architectural drawings of the monastery of St. Paul and the cave church / Nicholas Warner.