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Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Rebecca Krawiec
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
Monastic Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Caroline T. Schroeder
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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.
The Red Monastery Church
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This landmark, interdisciplinary publication of the Red Monastery church, the most important Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, highlights its remarkabl
An Archaeology of Egyptian Monasticism
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Louise Blanke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-30 - Publisher: Yale Egyptology

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The White Monastery in Upper Egypt and its two federated communities are among the largest, most prosperous and longest-lived loci of Coptic Christianity. Found
Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great
Language: en
Pages: 599
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Shenoute the Great (c.347–465) led one of the largest Christian monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest native writer of Coptic in his