Download or read book Shenoute & the Women of the White Monastery written by Rebecca Krawiec and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: bThe White Monastery was located in Egypt in the period 385-464 CE. Piecing together the fragmentary writings of Shenoute, a monk who headed the monastery, Krawiec depicts the relationships, events, quarrels, and patterns in the lives of the female monks under his care.