Monastic Bodies : : Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe / / 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 un...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 5 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction Shenoute in the Landscape of Early Christian Asceticism
- 1. Bodily Discipline and Monastic Authority: Shenoute's Earliest Letters to the Monastery
- 2. The Ritualization of the Monastic Body: Shenoute's Rules
- 3. The Church Building as Symbol of Ascetic Renunciation
- 4. Defending the Sanctity of the Body: Shenoute on the Resurrection
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments