Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe

by Caroline T. Schroeder

Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises--one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery--provide an unparalleled resource for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism.

In Monastic Bodies, Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239903
• ISBN13: 9780812239904
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.0"