Diakonia et économes au service de l'économie monastique en Égypte (IV e-VIII e siècles)
Despite the ideal of dispossession, absolute poverty and the total absence of links with possession and human beings which shaped the myth of the monastic desert, the monastic economy and its management were very similar to the secular economic system, in that both were organised by networks based o...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | French |
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Pubblicazioni Agostiniane
[2018]
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Augustinianum
Year: 2018, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 205-229 |
RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Summary: | Despite the ideal of dispossession, absolute poverty and the total absence of links with possession and human beings which shaped the myth of the monastic desert, the monastic economy and its management were very similar to the secular economic system, in that both were organised by networks based on families. This article tackles how and where material assets were produced and administered in Egyptian monasteries between the fourth and eighth centuries (the diakonia), and who was responsible for this function (the oikonomos). The history of monasticism is materially related to the institutionalisation of the society's cultural and material systems of production. Consequently the economy was also transformed by monastic practices: history is linked to the definition and the successful affirmation of the figure of the oikonomos, the steward in charge of everyday life in monasteries. |
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ISSN: | 2162-6499 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Augustinianum
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/agstm20185819 |