This is the first comprehensive survey of Christian architecture in Egypt from the fourth century up to early modern times, covering not only church architecture, but also and extensively the building art of pilgrimage centers, monasteries, cemeteries, defence structures and private houses. Special attention is given to building technique, arrangement of the interior, and liturgical (local) conditions. With a descriptive catalogue of urban and monastic churches.
Lord Mayford liebt die Ruhe seines Landsitzes. Hin und wieder besucht er London, auch wenn er das Stadtleben oft anstrengend findet. Das gilt besonders, wenn Mrs. Starke gerade eine ihrer Entdeckungsfahrten plant. Eine Reise mit Freizeit-Archäologen ist das Letzte, wonach Lord Mayford der Sinn steht. Doch nachdem er in eine Wette mit dem unbeholfenen Lord Doddlington verwickelt wird, finden sich beide unerwartet auf einer Expedition nach Ägypten wieder. "Lord Mayford und die Expedition nach Ägypten" ist eine Abenteurerzählung aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert voller Wortwitz im Stil von P.G. Wodehouse. Lord Mayford likes the peace and quiet of his country estate. Every now and then he visits London, even if he finds city life often strenuous. This is especially true when Mrs Starke is planning one of her voyages of discovery. A journey with spare-time archaeologists is the last thing Lord Mayford wants. But after he gets embroiled in a wager with the bumbling Lord Doddlington, both find themselves unexpectedly on an expedition to Egypt. The story of Lord Mayford and the expedition to Egypt is an early 19th century adventure tale filled with wordplay in the style of P.G. Wodehouse.
Twenty scholars have contributed to this book which deals with the development and characteristics of the literature of ancient Egypt over a period of over more than two millenia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BC) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300BC-200AD). The book is divided into thirty chapters concerned with the definition of literary discourse, the history and genre of the texts, their linguistic and stylistic features and the image of Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions - Greek, Coptic and Arabic. Thoroughly interdisciplinary.
Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlād al-nās (roughly: children of the elite). After Ulrich Haarmann's fundamental theses, research on this group seems to have paused, in comparison to the study dedicated to other social groups of Mamluk society. This volume brings together the results of an international conference and presents the state of the art in approaching the Mamluk descendants, whose emic perception as a group and social roles were far more differentiated and variable than previously assumed. The contributions shed light on the status of the Mamluk descendants from a variety of viewpoints, including historiographies, archival material, and artifacts produced by Mamluk descendants.
A selection of illustrated papers stemming from an International Symposium in Cairo, April 1992, which represent a wide range of study areas. Contributions include: Habitat et palais dans l'ancienne Nubie (Charles Bonnet); The Temple Palace of Merenptah in his House of a Million Years at Qurna (Horst Jaritz); Serif-style Architecture and the Design of the Archaic Egyptian Palace (Klaus Peter Kuhlmann); Houses of the Third Intermediate period at El-Ashmunein (Alan J. Spencer); The Archaic-Old Kingdom Delta:the Evidence from Mendes and Kom El-Hisn (Robert J.Wenke & Douglas J. Brewer); Deir el-Ballas and New Kingdom Royal Cities (Peter Lacovara). Nine loose plans in separate slip-case.
