Maria Chiara Giorda, PhD (2007), is a research fellow at the Dipartimento di Studi Storici, University of Torino, and Assistant Professor in History of Christianity and History of Religions. She has published monographs and many articles on Egyptian monasticism. Malcolm Choat, PhD (2000), is Associate Professor at the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney, and has published extensively on monasticism and the papyrological evidence for early Christianity in Egypt, including Belief and Cult in Fourth Century Papyri (Brepols, 2006). Contributors are: Malcolm Choat, Paul Dilley, Esther Garel, Maria Chiara Giorda, Lillian Larsen, Maria Nowak, Fabrizio Vecoli, Jacques van der Vliet, Jennifer Westerfeld, and Ewa Wipszycka.