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Document Details : Title: Social Structure and Food Consumption in an Early Christian Monastery Author(s): LAYTON, Bentley Journal: Le Muséon Volume: 115 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2002 Pages: 25-55 DOI: 10.2143/MUS.115.1.321 Abstract : This article investigates part of the social history of one of the earliest Christian monasteries, the White Monastery of Atripe in Egypt. The author's starting point is a basic function of monastic and indeed all human life, namely food consumption. In the article the author surveys a single body of evidence, the nine books of disciplinary writing called Canons, written in the Coptic language by the Egyptian monastic leader Shenoute (AD 348-465). |
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