Minnesota in Egypt

Several faculty members at the University of Minnesota work on aspects of Late Antique Egypt from papyri to potsherds. An important aspect is the rise of Christian Monasticism.

Monasticism began in Egypt, and the White Monastery is one of its greatest testimonies.

In 2000, a consortium including two members of the faculty at Minnesota began planning to study and conserve this and neighboring remains.

In 2003, Philip Sellew organized a symposium entitled

LIVING FOR ETERNITY:

THE WHITE MONASTERY AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD

It was accompanied by an exhibition entitled Life in Roman and Early Islamic Egypt. The main purpose of this website at present is to publish papers from that Symposium. We will also create a printed version for archival purposes.

December, 2011: This site now has all the materials for the book: title pages and a table of contents, seven Symposium papers, abstracts of the rest, an Appendix containing the exhibition catalogue, and and Index. The papers and the appendix are individually paginated at the top of each page, with the book pagination at the bottom. Removal of one paper necessitated repaginating the book. Final checking continues. Please let us know of any errors youfind i the index.

Deborah Brown, the Byzantine Librarian at Dumbarton Oaks, very kindly volunteered to see to getting the book catalogued. We hope to get copies to her around the beginning of the year. We will print very few copies, giving them to libraries.

After that, although the basic text will not change, we will continue to note corrections here if necessary. We expect to add one more paper, whcih will appear in anothr book but also on line here. Other additions may also occur.

 

Please address queries and comments to egypt@umn.edu. Thank you.

  • Living for Eternity:Title Pages for book

    Table of Contents



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    This site originally had several other functions,

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    The dancing figures used on these pages come from an Egyptian textile in the Arca Artium collection of Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN, by permission.

    Copyright 2001 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Sheila J. McNally. All rights reserved. Contact Sheila McNally at egypt@umn.edu.

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