Monastic Economies in Egypt and Palestine, 5th–10th centuries CE, Oxford, March 16–17, 2016
Recent decades have seen renewed interest and vigour in the archaeology, visual culture, and textual evidence of monasteries in Egypt and Palestine. This includes new excavations in both regions, as well as the examination of evidence in museum collections across the world. This symposium aims to expand and diversify past conceptions of monastic economies by combining these sources – both of newly excavated and re-discovered material – through four main sessions:
- Monastic food production and consumption;
- monastic estate (built environments and landholdings);
- Travel and pilgrimage;
- Trade and the production and consumption of material culture.
Organisers: Louise Blanke, Jennifer Cromwell and Bryan Ward-Perkins.