LEADER 04214nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910827475203321 005 20240418030227.0 010 $a0-8122-0338-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203387 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418174 035 $a(EBL)3442039 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035983 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11584625 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035983 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11050810 035 $a(PQKB)10881578 035 $a(OCoLC)859162321 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26736 035 $a(DE-B1597)449195 035 $a(OCoLC)1013962912 035 $a(OCoLC)979576340 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442039 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442039 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418174 100 $a20060915d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMonastic bodies $ediscipline and salvation in Shenoute of Atripe /$fCaroline T. Schroeder 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 0 $aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-3990-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction Shenoute in the Landscape of Early Christian Asceticism --$t1. Bodily Discipline and Monastic Authority: Shenoute's Earliest Letters to the Monastery --$t2. The Ritualization of the Monastic Body: Shenoute's Rules --$t3. The Church Building as Symbol of Ascetic Renunciation --$t4. Defending the Sanctity of the Body: Shenoute on the Resurrection --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tAbbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aShenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises-one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery-provide an unparalleled resource for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism. In Monastic Bodies, Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth examination of the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery using diverse sources, including monastic rules, theological treatises, sermons, and material culture. Schroeder details Shenoute's arduous disciplinary code and philosophical structure, including the belief that individual sin corrupted not only the individual body but the entire "corporate body" of the community. Thus the purity of the community ultimately depended upon the integrity of each individual monk.Shenoute's ascetic discourse focused on purity of the body, but he categorized as impure not only activities such as sex but any disobedience and other more general transgressions. Shenoute emphasized the important practices of discipline, or askesis, in achieving this purity. Contextualizing Shenoute within the wider debates about asceticism, sexuality, and heresy that characterized late antiquity, Schroeder compares his views on bodily discipline, monastic punishments, the resurrection of the body, the incarnation of Christ, and monastic authority with those of figures such as Cyril of Alexandria, Paulinus of Nola, and Pachomius. 410 0$aDivinations : Rereading Late Ancient Religion 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders$zEgypt$xHistory 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory. 676 $a271.0092 676 $aB 700 $aSchroeder$b Caroline T.$f1971-$01681912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827475203321 996 $aMonastic bodies$94051656 997 $aUNINA