Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Desert Ascetics as Early Christian Celebrities
Chapter 3: What Did the Desert Ascetics Teach and How Did They Live?
Chapter 4: The Problem of a Saintly Reputation: Antony and Athanasius
Chapter 5: Other Desert Ascetics and Other Sources
Chapter 6: Grounding the Desert Ascetics in Archaeology
Chapter 7: Archaeology of Place: Where Desert Ascetics Lived
Chapter 8: Monastic Archaeology and Monastic Things
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Reassembling the History of Desert Ascetics