Na pierwszym seminarium PCMA z serii „Local Traditions, Shared Faith: Early Christianity in Comparative Perspective” wystąpi prof. Basema Hamarneh (Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Universität Wien) z prezentacją: „The Monastic Traditions of the South Levant in a Transhistorical Perspective”.
Abstract: Monasticism in southern Levant reflects a complex interplay between landscape, local tradition, and evolving religious practice. The aim here is examine how monastic life beyond urban centers developed as both a spiritual and social phenomenon from Late Antiquity through the early Islamic centuries. Drawing on archaeological evidence, hagiographic texts, and patterns of settlement continuity, it explores how different forms of monasteries mediated between urban and rural communities, pilgrimage networks, and shifting political agendas.
Rather than treating the rise and decline of monasticism as discrete chronological episodes, the study traces the adaptive resilience of monastic traditions within changing economic, environmental, and cultural frameworks. By applying a transhistorical perspective, it highlights processes of persistence and transformation that positions South Levant as a dynamic frontier of shared faith practices. This approach links local monastic expressions to broader Eastern Mediterranean models, inviting a reconsideration of how “rural” and “religious” identities co-evolved across periods of transition.
Seminarium odbędzie się w czwartek 16 kwietnia o godz. 16.00 na platformie Zoom.
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Organizatorką cyklu „Local Traditions, Shared Faith: Early Christianity in Comparative Perspective” jest dr Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), kierowniczka ekspedycji CAŚ UW w Szejch Abd el-Gurna (Egipt). Seria ma na celu zgromadzenie badaczy zajmujących się wczesnym chrześcijaństwem oraz monastycyzmem na obszarze wschodniego basenu Morza Śródziemnego i regionów sąsiednich – od późnej starożytności po wczesny okres islamski.