About the Book
Ariel G. Lopez is Professor at Rhodes College.
Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty
Rural Patronage
by Ariel G. Lopez (Author)
Price: $85.00 / £71.00
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9780520954922
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Lopez provides a new and exciting profile of Shenoute of Atripe that analyzes the abbot's career and contextualizes it within the social history of the late antique East. Perhaps the book's most important contribution is its proper (and overdue) restoration of Shenoute, one of the best-documented rural patrons of late antiquity, to the broader conversation about poverty, patronage, and shifting centers of power that has reshaped our understanding of the later Roman Empire. This book has much to offer both scholars interested in Shenoute and those working on the wider empire to which he belonged.
—Edward J. Watts, author of Riot in Alexandria
—Edward J. Watts, author of Riot in Alexandria
Reviews
— Bryn Mawr Classical Review"López’s volume is an essential counterpart to the current dialogue on wealth and poverty in late ancient Christianity."
— Vigiliae Christianae"[Lopez] has written a stimulating and thought-provoking book."
Lopez provides a new and exciting profile of Shenoute of Atripe that analyzes the abbot's career and contextualizes it within the social history of the late antique East. Perhaps the book's most important contribution is its proper (and overdue) restoration of Shenoute, one of the best-documented rural patrons of late antiquity, to the broader conversation about poverty, patronage, and shifting centers of power that has reshaped our understanding of the later Roman Empire. This book has much to offer both scholars interested in Shenoute and those working on the wider empire to which he belonged.
—Edward J. Watts, author of Riot in Alexandria
—Edward J. Watts, author of Riot in Alexandria