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• catalog abstract ""This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 C.E. 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." "The book begins by describing the monks' daily routine and argues that the monastery's culture was based on uniformity, in both material goods and emotional support. The female monks' relationship with Shenoute was colored by the physical separation of the female community from the male community. Krawiec examines how Shenoute constructed and exerted his authority in these conditions, and investigates the degree to which the women accepted it. Krawiec then investigates the role of gender both in Shenoute's presentation of his authority and in the women's reaction to it. She argues that Shenoute believed in a universal, "genderless" monasticism, appropriate for both men and women. However, alongside this dominant model, we can see a gendered monasticism created by the women's physical separation and Shenoute's own cultural assumptions about women." "Shenoute was able to have these two apparently incompatible views of the role of gender in monasticism co-exist in part because he structured the monastery as a family, idealized by its ascetic values. Krawiec shows that in this way Shenoute was able to combine egalitarian rhetoric and patriarchal structures. Krawiec concludes by examining how Shenoute's creation of the monastic community as a family affected female monks who had kin alongside them in the monastery."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Egyptian monasticism in late antiquity".
• catalog alternative "Shenoute and the women of the White Monastery".
• catalog contributor b12074065.
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""This book depicts the lives of female monks within a monastery located in upper Egypt in the period 385-464 C.E. 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." "The book begins by describing the monks' daily routine and argues that the monastery's culture was based on uniformity, in both material goods and emotional support. The female monks' relationship with Shenoute was colored by the physical separation of the female community from the male community. Krawiec examines how Shenoute constructed and exerted his authority in these conditions, and investigates the degree to which the women accepted it. Krawiec then investigates the role of gender both in Shenoute's presentation of his authority and in the women's reaction to it. She argues that Shenoute believed in a universal, "genderless" monasticism, appropriate for both men and women. However, alongside this dominant model, we can see a gendered monasticism created by the women's physical separation and Shenoute's own cultural assumptions about women." "Shenoute was able to have these two apparently incompatible views of the role of gender in monasticism co-exist in part because he structured the monastery as a family, idealized by its ascetic values. Krawiec shows that in this way Shenoute was able to combine egalitarian rhetoric and patriarchal structures. Krawiec concludes by examining how Shenoute's creation of the monastic community as a family affected female monks who had kin alongside them in the monastery."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.".
• catalog extent "xii, 248 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0195129431 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Egypt Sūhāj".
• catalog subject "BR1720.S48 K73 2002X".
• catalog subject "Dayr al-Abyaḍ (Sūhāj, Egypt : Province) Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Dayr al-Abyaḍ (Sūhāj, Egypt) History.".
• catalog subject "Monastic and religious life of women Egypt Sūhāj History Early church, approximately 30-600.".
• catalog subject "Monastic and religious life of women Egypt Sūhāj History Early church, ca. 30-600.".
• catalog subject "Shenute, Saint, approximately 348-466.".
• catalog subject "Shenute, approximately 348-466.".
• catalog title "Egyptian monasticism in late antiquity".
• catalog title "Shenoute & the women of the White Monastery : Egyptian monasticism in late antiquity / Rebecca Krawiec.".
• catalog title "Shenoute and the women of the White Monastery".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".