Shenoute of Atripe and the uses of poverty : rural patronage, religious conflict and monasticism in late antique Egypt /

Shenoute of Atripe : stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The iss...

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Main Author: López, Ariel G., 1977- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Berkely, CA : Univeristy of California Press, 2013

Series: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 50.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.

Subjects:

Shenute, > Saint, > approximately 348-466.

Coptic monasticism and religious orders > History.

Romans > Egypt.

Egypt > History > 30 B.C.-640 A.D.