Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery

Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Denominations, Monasticism, Reference, History
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Author: Rebecca Krawiec ISBN: 9780190284619
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: January 24, 2002
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Rebecca Krawiec
ISBN: 9780190284619
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: January 24, 2002
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. During this period, the monastery was headed by a monk named Shenoute; thirteen of his letters to the women under his care survive. These writings are fragmentary, only partially translated, little studied, and written in difficult-to-decipher Coptic. Despite these problems, Krawiec has used the letters to reconstruct a series of quarrels and events in the life of the White Monastery and to discern some of the key patterns in the participants' relationships to one another within the world as they perceived it.

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This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. During this period, the monastery was headed by a monk named Shenoute; thirteen of his letters to the women under his care survive. These writings are fragmentary, only partially translated, little studied, and written in difficult-to-decipher Coptic. Despite these problems, Krawiec has used the letters to reconstruct a series of quarrels and events in the life of the White Monastery and to discern some of the key patterns in the participants' relationships to one another within the world as they perceived it.

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