This is the first book-length study of children in one of the
birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although
comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the
monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and
expected them to carry on their monastic lineage and legacies into
the future. Children within monasteries existed in a liminal space,
simultaneously vulnerable to the whims and abuses of adults and
also cherished as potential future monastic prodigies. Caroline T.
Schroeder examines diverse sources - letters, rules, saints' lives,
art, and documentary evidence - to probe these paradoxes. In doing
so, she demonstrates how early Egyptian monasteries provided an
intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic
capital while also contesting the traditional family's claims to
these forms of social continuity.
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