Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

by Rebecca Krawiec

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195129431
• ISBN13: 9780195129434
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"