Girls and Girlhood in Sources from the White Monastery: A Preliminary Study

Schroeder, Caroline T.

Girls and Girlhood in Sources from the White Monastery: A Preliminary Study

dc.contributor.author	Schroeder, Caroline T.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-14T16:43:14Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-14T16:43:14Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Women lived as monks in their own houses, in communities of women, and possibly as semi-hermits in caves or tombs. In particular, at the White Monastery Federation, across the Nile from modern Akhmim and ancient Panopolis, a community of monastic women, one that included girls, existed from the fourth century on. In conducting my research for a forthcoming book on children and family, I found concrete evidence for the presence of girls in some monasteries – especially in the White Monastery Federation. Unfortunately the evidence was scarce. Therefore, writing a comprehensive social history of girls in late antique Egyptian monasticism proved difficult.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This is the version of record, first published in volume 19 of Coptica. It has been made available in SHAREOK with the permission of the journal editor.	en_US
dc.description.peerreview	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Schroeder, C. T. (2020). Girls and girlhood in sources from the White Monastery: A preliminary study. Coptica, 19, 33-48.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/336525
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Gender Studies.	en_US
dc.subject	Women's Studies.	en_US
dc.title	Girls and Girlhood in Sources from the White Monastery: A Preliminary Study	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
ou.group	Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Women’s and Gender Studies	en_US