Date：Monday, September 8, 15:00-18:00
Venue：Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, First Conference Room
Speaker： Chrysi Kotsifou (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Title：Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery and the Scribal Practices at the Monastery of St. John the Little
Language：English
Abstract：
This lecture will present the excavation at the monastery of St. John the Little in Wadi n ‘Natrun with an emphasis on the inscriptional material unearthed there. The Coptic dipinti place the inhabitants of the manshubiya under excavation into the vibrant monastic world of 10th c. Egypt, a world that was economically quite well-off, and certainly very highly educated. Further, this inscriptional material demonstrates that the monks who executed them were not only literate but copyists of manuscripts, as well.
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