Mark N. Swanson
Mark N. Swanson is the Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations and associate director of A Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
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Chapter 15. An Eclipsed History: Toward a Framework for the Medieval History of the Red Monastery
Mark N. Swanson
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
In their excellent entry on the history of the Red Monastery in The Coptic Encyclopedia, René-Georges Coquin and Maurice Martin made the astute comment that “this monastery always remained in the shadow of its celebrated neighbor [the White Monastery], so much so that its history is somewhat eclipsed...
Author
Mark N. Swanson
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.193-201
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.15
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23738
Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineCoptic inscriptionsByzantine Empire--Church history