Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195129431
ISBN-13
9780195129434
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 14th, 2002
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
558 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
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This title depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. Piecing together 12 original letters, the author examines how the male monk in charge constructed and exerted his authority, and the degree to which this was accepted.
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; twelve of his letters to the women under his care survive. Despite various technical textual difficulties, Krawiec is able to use 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. She begins by describing the monks'' daily routine and discovers that the monastery''s culture was based on uniformity, in both material goods and emotional support, for all the monks, regardless of background. The female monks'' relationship with Shenoute constructed and exerted his authority in these conditions, and investigates the degree to which the women accepted it.
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