Title & Author:

The cave church of Paul the Hermit at the monastery of St. Paul, Egypt / edited by William Lyster.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 395 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-374) and index.
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.

Summary:

"The Coptic Monastery of St. Paul by the Red Sea grew up around the cave where Paul, the first Christian hermit, lived in solitude. The cave served as a shrine in late antiquity, became a church in the middle ages, and expanded again in the early modern period. This ... book chronicles the history of a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church. It explores how the monastic community commissioned painting twice in the church in the 13th century, during one of the greatest eras of Coptic art, and how one of the monks painted it again in the 18th century, helping to inaugurate a Coptic renaissance after centuries of decline. The foundation of this volume is a wall painting conservation project sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt. The book also sets the art and architecture of the Cave Church in its historical context and examines the role of the Monastery of St. Paul as part of the sacred geography of Christian Egypt through time." https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300118476/cave-church-paul-hermit

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780300118476 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300118473 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Paulus von Theben
Monastery of St. Paul the Hermit (Egypt)
Coptic Church Egypt History.
Monastery of St Paul the Hermit Egypt.
Coptic Church.
Koptisk-ortodoxa kyrkan historia Egypten.
Coptic Church History.
Monasteries Egypt.
Christian antiquities Egypt.
Church architecture Egypt History.
Antiquités chrétiennes Égypte.
Architecture chrétienne Égypte Histoire.
Christian art and symbolism Egypt.
Church architecture Egypt.
Antiquities.
Christian antiquities.
Church architecture.
Monasteries.
Kloster Egypten.
Kyrkoarkitektur historia Egypten.
Egypt Antiquities.
Égypte Antiquités.
Egypt.
Egypten fornlämningar.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Lyster, William (Art historian)
Lyster, William.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258706
Call No.: BIB 189498
Status: Available