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Volume 24, Issue 1
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Cet article s’attache à montrer que la christianisation de l’Égypte à l’époque tardo-antique représente une rupture fondamentale dans l’histoire culturelle du pays. Les tentatives récentes de trouver les traces de traditions égyptiennes dans la littérature chrétienne, l’art et les documents égyptiens de cette période sont dénués de fondement. Elles empruntent davantage aux présupposés des antiquisants et égyptologues modernes qu’aux véritables sources. L’histoire de l’Égypte de cette époque ne peut se comprendre que comme celle d’une composante d’un ensemble bien plus important, à savoir l’Empire romain tardif. []

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