Shenoute of Atripe

Abstract

As the third leader of White Monastery Federation in Upper Egypt, across the Nile from Panopolis, Shenoute of Atripe had an in-house audience for his work when he addressed the men and women of his monastic community in letters and sermons. He also preached regularly in White Monastery church to a mixed audience of Christian clergy and laity. The rediscovery of Shenoute by Western scholarship began with the collection of Coptic manuscripts and their preservation in European libraries. But the first substantial publications of works of Shenoute were based on partial texts, and judgments of his place in Egyptian Christian history seem to be slanted in the direction of early editors’ interests. Letters written by Shenoute to several archbishops of Alexandria survive, but their addresses are not always named. There is very little evidence outside of Shenoute's own work for his activities and influence in late fourth and fifth centuries.

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