The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (The Popes of Egypt) 9781617979101, 9789774168345, 9789774248306, 9781617979118, 1617979104

The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (The Popes of Egypt) [Illustrated] 9789774168345, 9774168348

The Copts, adherents of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, today represent the largest Christian community in the Middle East

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The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517 (The Popes of Egypt) 9781617976698, 9789774160936, 9781649032461, 9781936190386, 1617976695

In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of “apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and

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The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity 0415883652, 9780415883658

In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewe

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The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity 9780691201733

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official lang

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The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476-752 9781138777842

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Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity 9780198029618, 0198029616

This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. During t

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Faith and Leadership: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church 0739171321, 9780739171325

This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed ove

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The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts: The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 1783276843, 9781783276844

The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance, which has puzzled and intrigued schol

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Those for Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity 9780520388826

In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the

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Egypt in Late Antiquity 9781400821167, 1400821169

This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province imp

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