The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute

• Autores: Malcolm Choat (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 615-616
• Idioma: inglés

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  • The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute

    Bentley Layton

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  • Here is a wealth of information, as valuable to the modern observer as it was incidental to Shenoute, on the coenobium's physical institutions; the people who comprised the community; ascetic observances; the congregation's hierarchy; liturgy; and the monastic economy. Throughout these two chapters, the historian of monasticism and late antique society will find novel insights and perspectives, be it the presence of children in the monastery (55); the "knocking signal" (a wooden gong?) that summoned the monks to gatherings (72); or the routines constructed by the rules that kept the monks' identity intact, even when they passed beyond the "non-porous boundary" formed by the monastery's walls and gates (83-84). At times, these could help to contextualize the law in its living monastic context, so the full text must always be consulted-as difficult as that is made by the continuing incomplete state of the edition, publication, and translation of Shenoute's writings-by one who truly wishes to understand the place of the rule in the text and in the world of Shenoute and his monks. [...]a complete edition of Shenoute's writings appears, this publication forms an invaluable entry point to these texts and a first class volume in its own right.