Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty. Ariel G. Lopez

Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty - Ariel G. Lopez


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      In honor of beloved Virgil—

      “O degli altri poeti onore e lume …”

      —Dante, Inferno

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support

      of the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the

      University of California Press Foundation, which was

      established by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.

      Shenoute of Atripe and

      the Uses of Poverty

      TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE

      Peter Brown, General Editor

      1 Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack

      2 Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman

      3 Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum

      4 John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken

      5 Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox

      6 Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau

      7 Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A.P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein

      8 Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam

      9 Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton

      10 Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron

      11 Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster

      12 Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180–275, by Kenneth Harl

      13 Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey

      14 Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw

      15 “Apex Omnium”: Religion in the “Res gestae” of Ammianus, by R.L. Rike

      16 Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S.B. MacCoull

      17 On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman

      18 Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and “The Lives of the Eastern Saints,” by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

      19 Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry

      20 Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau

      21 In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C.E.V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers

      22 Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn

      23 Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim

      24 The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus

      25 Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s “Life” and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger

      26 The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack

      27 Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout

      28 The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden

      29 The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella

      30 The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank

      31 Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau

      32 Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, by Glenn Peers

      33 Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity, by Daniel Caner

      34 Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., by Noel Lenski

      35 Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros

      36 Qusayr ‘Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, by Garth Fowden

      37 Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, by Claudia Rapp

      38 Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

      39 There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, by Michael Gaddis

      40 The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Thomas Walker

      41 City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, by Edward J. Watts

      42 Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

      43 Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius, edited by Robert J. Penella

      44 The Matter of the Gods, by Clifford Ando

      45 The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, by Matthew P. Canepa

      46 Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities, by Edward J. Watts

      47 Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa, by Leslie Dossey

      48 Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria, by Adam M. Schor

      49 Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, by Susanna Elm

      50 Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt, by Ariel G. López

      51 Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho

      Shenoute of Atripe and

      the Uses of Poverty

      Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and

      Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

      Ariel G. López

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      López, Ariel G.

      Shenoute of Atripe and the uses of poverty : rural patronage, religious conflict and monasticism


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