Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Desert

Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian DesertIn the fourth century A. D. the deserts of Egypt saw the birth of Christian monasticism under the tutelage of the desert fathers. Since then the movement has spread around the world. This standard work traces the historical development of all the currently inhabited Coptic monasteries, drawing on a wide variety of sources, including accounts by early Western travelers.

including remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies

condensed tannins

particularly electrical energy use efficiency

and in developing management options

1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history

they were also authors and scholars

the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers

It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga’s famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages

Court and Country

This chapter reviews the literature on the nutritional and health-related aspects of regular coffee consumption

and the possibility of an afterlife

political and religious contexts