Coptic Culture in the Byzantine World: Nationalism and Religious Independence
<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University
2001-07-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/12581 |
| Summary: | <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The emergence of a distinctive Christian culture in late antique Egypt, increasingly turned in on itself, was facilitated by the development of the written Coptic language, the triumph of Monophysism, and perhaps most the limited access of Egyptians to Greek education.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> |
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| ISSN: | 0017-3916 2159-3159 |