Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery (e-bog) af Krawiec, Rebecca
Krawiec, Rebecca (forfatter)

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery e-bog

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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 h...
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Forfattere Krawiec, Rebecca (forfatter)
Udgivet 24 januar 2002
Genrer 1HBE
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780198029618
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.