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Idem, ‘The desert of southern Palestine according to Byzantine sources’, Proceedings of the American Philological Society 107 (1963), 170-1. For pilgrim services in Nessana see: idem, Monks, martyrs, soldiers and Saracens, papers on the Near East in Late Antiquity, 1962-1993, Jerusalem 1994, 232-249; Figueras, ‘Monks and monasteries’, 430.

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For Syria see: P. Canivet, ‘Contributions archéologiques á l’histoire des moines de Syrie (IV°-V° siècles): à propos de l’Histoire Philothée de Théodoret (444 env.)’, Studia Patristica 13 (1975), 444-460; C. Foss, ‘Syria in transition, A. D. 550-750: An archaeological approach’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51 (1997), 189-269. A good example for a possible cooperation between monks and peasants in agricultural production can be seen in the remains of the village of Kharab Shams, where a large oil press was situated halfway between the village and the nearby monastery. See: Hull, ‘A spatial and morphological analysis’, 98-102; For Arabia see: B. Hamarneh, ‘Monasteries in rural context in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina Tertia: a reassessment’, in Christ is here, studies in Biblical and Christian archaeology in memory of Fr Michele Piccirillo ofm, Jerusalem 2012, p. 275-296; For Egypt see: R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1996, 296-303; E. Wipszycka, ‘Resources and economic activities of the Egyptian monastic communities (4th-8th century)’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 46 (2011), 159-263.

For Syria see: P. Canivet, ‘Contributions archéologiques á l’histoire des moines de Syrie (IV°-V° siècles): à propos de l’Histoire Philothée de Théodoret (444 env.)’, Studia Patristica 13 (1975), 444-460; C. Foss, ‘Syria in transition, A. D. 550-750: An archaeological approach’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51 (1997), 189-269. A good example for a possible cooperation between monks and peasants in agricultural production can be seen in the remains of the village of Kharab Shams, where a large oil press was situated halfway between the village and the nearby monastery. See: Hull, ‘A spatial and morphological analysis’, 98-102; For Arabia see: B. Hamarneh, ‘Monasteries in rural context in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina Tertia: a reassessment’, in Christ is here, studies in Biblical and Christian archaeology in memory of Fr Michele Piccirillo ofm, Jerusalem 2012, p. 275-296; For Egypt see: R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1996, 296-303; E. Wipszycka, ‘Resources and economic activities of the Egyptian monastic communities (4th-8th century)’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 46 (2011), 159-263.)| false
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C. Mango, ‘Aspects of Syrian piety’, in Ecclesiastical silver plate in sixth century Byzantium (Washington, d.c.: 1992), 99-105; P.-L. Gatier, ‘Villages en Proche-Orient proto-byzantin (4^e-7^e siècle): Étude régionale,’ in G.R.D. King and A. Cameron (eds), The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, vol. 2, Princeton 1994, 17-48.)| false
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Banaji, Agrarian Change, 195.

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See: Ashkenazi and Aviam, ‘Monasteries, monks and villages’, 281-282.

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For Egypt see: R.S. Bagnall, ‘Monks and property—rhetoric, law and patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the papyri’, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 42 (2001), 20-24. For implicit criticism in the writings of Evagrius Ponticus see: D. Brakke, ‘Care for the Poor, Fear of Poverty, and Love of Money: Evagrius Ponticus on the Monk’s Economic Vulnerability’, in: S. R. Holman (ed.), Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society, Grand Rapids, mi 2008, 78-79.

For Egypt see: R.S. Bagnall, ‘Monks and property—rhetoric, law and patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the papyri’, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 42 (2001), 20-24. For implicit criticism in the writings of Evagrius Ponticus see: D. Brakke, ‘Care for the Poor, Fear of Poverty, and Love of Money: Evagrius Ponticus on the Monk’s Economic Vulnerability’, in: S. R. Holman (ed.), Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society, Grand Rapids, mi 2008, 78-79.)| false
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