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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2020
      September 2020
      ISBN:
      9781316661642
      9781107156876
      9781316610084
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316661642
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 160 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 270 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
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    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.

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    ‘an important and comprehensive contribution that will be very much appreciated by the academic community. Students and scholars of the late antique world, the history of Christianity and monasticism, and the Eastern Mediterranean will all find [Schroeder's] nuanced work meaningful and valuable … Her ultimate contribution, in my opinion, is illustrating how classical virtues and institutions were baptized and immortalized in the history of Christianity.’

    Mary Ghattas Source: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies

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