Resumen de The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction by Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom (review)
First and foremost, the natural environment: the realities of living in the near or "outer" desert as opposed to the far or "inner" desert; the proximity of the desert to the sown, cultivated fields along the Nile; the rhythms of the Nile's floods and the conditions of life, human and non-human, along its shores. [...]the built environment: access to water in the near or far desert; finding or growing food at a distance from cultivated fields; types of construction materials and methods; spatial configurations that can accommodate both private and communal forms of life. [...]if we are to restore non-human things as central to Egyptian monasticism, we must keep in mind missing things, the material ephemera of monastic life: mattresses, pillows, lamps, hooks, blankets, books, and so on.
