Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Imagining and Inhabiting the Desert -- Chapter 2. Psalmody and Prayer as Ascetic Weapons -- Chapter 3. Monks and Memory Sanctions -- Chapter 4. The Desert and the Discourse on Barbarians -- Chapter 5. Reordering the Desert -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Death of the Desert offers a fresh examination of Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria's banishment of the so-called Tall Brothers, four Origenist monks who led monastic communities in the western Egyptian desert, and brings into dialogue narrative strands that have largely been separated in the scholarly tradition
