Crossing Rivers, Confronting Crocodiles: Aquatic Space, Ambiguous Creatures, and Ascetic Life in Late Antiquity
The theme of this article is how aquatic space was produced, imagined, and experienced by ascetics and monastics in Christian Egypt. I apply a wilderness perspective to the Nile in order to see how the imagined space of the river shifted character, depending on how it was conceived and experienced....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Peeters
2021
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Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2021, Volume: 97, Issue: 3, Pages: 411-426 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nile
/ Water
/ Asceticism
/ Church
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RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa NCA Ethics |
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