Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives

Explores the organization of diet, food practices, water management, and spatial use within historical monastic complexes and landscapes.

Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secular world. Christian monasticism, which originated at the end of the 3rd century in Egypt and North Africa, spread to different parts...