In re-examining the Christianization of the Roman Empire and subsequent transformation of Graeco-Roman classical culture, this volume challenges conventional ways of understanding both the history of Christian monasticism and the history of education. The chapters interrogate assumptions that have framed monastic practice as pedagogically unprecedented, with few obvious precursors and/or parallels. A number explore how both teaching and practice merge classical pedagogical structures with Christian sources and traditions. Others re-situate monasticism within a longer trajectory of educational and institutional frameworks, elucidating models that remain central to the preservation of both Greek and Latin literary culture, and the skills of reading and writing. Through re-examination of archaeological evidence and critical re-reading of signature monastic texts, each documents the degree to which monastic structures emerged in close alignment with urban, literate society, and retain established affinity with classical rhetorical and philosophical school traditions.
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Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
Part I. The Language of Education:
1. Early monasticism and the concept
of a 'School' Samuel Rubenson;
2. Translating paideia: education in the Greek
and Latin versions of the Life of Anthony Peter Gemeinhardt;
3. Paideia,
piety and power: Emperors and Monks in Socrates' Church History Andreas
Westergren; Part II. Elementary Education and Literacy:
4. The Educational
and Cultural Background of Egyptian Monks Roger Bagnall;
5. 'Excavating the
Excavations' of early monastic education Lillian I. Larsen;
6. Homer and
Menandri Sententiae in Upper Egyptian monastic settings Anastasia Maravela;
Part III. Grammar and Rhetoric:
7. The school of Didymus the blind in the
light of the Tura find Blossom Stefaniw;
8. Affecting rhetoric: the adoption
of Ethopoeia in Evagrius of Pontus' ascetic program Ellen Muehlberger;
9.
Classical education in sixth century Coptic monasticism: the example of Rufus
of Shotep Mark Sheridan; Part IV. Philosophy:
10. The virtue of being
uneducated: attitudes towards classical paideia in early monasticism and
ancient philosophy Henrik Rydell Johnsén;
11. Plato between school and cell:
biography and competition in the fifth-century philosophical field Arthur
Urbano;
12. Pythagorean traditions in Early Christian asceticism Daniele
Pevarello; Part V. Manuscript and Literary Production:
13. Textual fluidity
and authorial revision: the case of Cassian and Palladius Britt Dahlman;
14.
Production, distribution, and ownership of books in the monasteries of Upper
Egypt: the evidence of the Nag Hammadi Colophons Hugo Lundhaug and Lance
Jenott;
15. Greek thought, Arabic culture: approaching the Arabic recensions
of the Apophthegmata Patrum Jason Zaborowski.
Lillian I. Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands, California. Her foundational re-reading of the desert fathers and mothers in light of ancient pedagogy grounds the work of the MOPAI research initiative. Samuel Rubenson is a Professor in the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He has long been engaged in research on the letters of St Antony.
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