The Archaeology of Early Christianity
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William H. C. Frend
From the Empress Helena's finding of the true cross to the birth of archaeology in the Renaissance to the great discoveries of the modern period, this is the story of objects and sites that have altered the way we think about Christianity.
Early Christian Art and Architecture: An Introduction
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Guntram Koch
an account of architecture sacred and profane, funerary art in catacombs and tombs and especially sarcophagi, the graphic arts and the various forms of art in miniature. illustrated with numerous line drawings and photographs, including ground plans and elevations of churches, actual and conjectural, and there are full descriptions of the art and architecture discussed against historical background. bibliographies.
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Spaces in Late Antiquity
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Juliette Day
explore how various groups in Late Antiquity rooted their identity in special places that were imbued with meanings derived from history and tradition. demonstrate how the use and interpretation of shared spaces contributed to the self-identity of specific groups in Late Antiquity and in so doing issued challenges, and caused conflict, with other social and religious groups.
The Thousand and One Churches
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William M. Ramsay
study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. the sprawling early Christian site known as Binbirkilise ("Thousand and One Churches," near Konya), excavated by Ramsay and Bell in 1907.
The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit
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William Lyster
The cave served as a shrine in late antiquity, became a church in the middle ages, and expanded again in the early modern period. chronicles a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church.
The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: an archaeological reconstruction
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Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. illustrates the differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions.