Economic production in the monasteries of Egypt and Oriens, AD 320-800

This thesis is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, qualitative and quantitative appraisal of the monastic economy in late Antiquity and the period of early Islam. Based on the textual and archaeological evidence of over 1,000 monasteries in Egypt and Oriens, this thesis combines both an in-depth an...

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Main Author: Schachner, Lukas Amadeus
Published: University of Oxford 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432170