Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty - Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, Monasticism in Late Antique

Zusatztext "[Lopez] has written a stimulating and thought-provoking book."  Informationen zum Autor Ariel G. Lopez is Professor at Rhodes College. Klappentext Lopez provides a new and exciting profile of Shenoute of Atripe that analyzes the abbot's career and contextualizes it within the social history of the late antique East. Perhaps the book's most important contribution is its proper (and overdue) restoration of Shenoute, one of the best-documented rural patrons of late antiquity, to the broader conversation about poverty, patronage, and shifting centers of power that has reshaped our understanding of the later Roman Empire. This book has much to offer both scholars interested in Shenoute and those working on the wider empire to which he belonged. —Edward J. Watts, author of Riot in Alexandria   Zusammenfassung 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 important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: "Rustic Audacity" 1. Loyal Opposition 2. A Miraculous Economy 3. Rural Patronage: Holy and Unholy 4. The Limits of Intolerance Conclusion Appendix A: The Chronology of Shenoute's Life and Activities Appendix B: The Sources List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Ariel G. L[pez, Ariel G. Laopez, Ariel G Lopez, Ariel G. Lopez
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2013
• EAN: 9780520274839
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27483-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage; Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, Egypt, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Religious institutions and organizations, Religious institutions & organizations