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Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism

Hardback

Main Details

Title Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Caroline T. Schroeder
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:248
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 160
Category/GenreAfrican history
Christianity
Christian life and practice
ISBN/Barcode 9781107156876
ClassificationsDewey:276.202
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 September 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and expected them to carry on their monastic lineage and legacies into the future. Children within monasteries existed in a liminal space, simultaneously vulnerable to the whims and abuses of adults and also cherished as potential future monastic prodigies. Caroline T. Schroeder examines diverse sources - letters, rules, saints' lives, art, and documentary evidence - to probe these paradoxes. In doing so, she demonstrates how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family's claims to these forms of social continuity.

Author Biography

Caroline T. Schroeder is Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Monastic Bodies (2007), co-editor of Melania (2016), and co-founder of the ground-breaking digital project Coptic Scriptorium.