- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries
Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries
- Chapter:
- (p.21) 3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Care for the sick was a shared value at the heart of the early monastic movement, and certainly this was the case in Shenoute's monasteries. This chapter explores the medical and institutional aspects of care for the sick by outlining the basic contours of this important component of monastic life in Shenoute's monasteries. In Shenoute's monasteries, the infirmary served the acutely ill. Coenobitic literature from Egypt in general indicates that the infirmary formed an expected and functionally vital component of the coenobitic life. Unlike virtually every other type of ancient medical care, including that provided in many 4th- and 5th-century semi-eremitical monasteries in Egypt and elsewhere, coenobitic monasteries offered inpatient care under the supervision of trained healers, including a nursing staff and doctors. The writings of Shenoute and Besa are important witnesses to this tradition of monastic healing. It is to be noted that while the monasteries of Shenoute provided a range of charitable services for non-monks, use of the infirmary was restricted to the monastic sick.
Keywords: Shenoute, monasteries, sick, monastic life, infirmary, monastic healing, coenobitic monasteries
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
