Caroline T Schroeder

Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781107156876
• ISBN-10: 1107156874
• Artikelnr.: 60010568

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Finding children: 1. Documenting the undocumented: Children in the earliest Egyptian Monasteries
2. The language of childhood
Part II. Representations: 3. Homoeroticism, children, and the making of monks
4. Child sacrifice: From familial renunciation to Jephthah's lost daughter
5. Monastic family values: The healing of children
Part III. A social history: 6. Making new monks: Children's education, discipline, and ascetic formation
7. Breaking rules and telling tales: Daily life for monastic children
8. The ties that bind: Emotional and social bonds between parents and children
Conclusion: Monastic genealogies
Bibliography.