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  • Chapter 6 - Making New Monks

  • from Part III - A Social History
  • Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma
  • Book:
    Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 127-144

  • Summary

    Children in early Egyptian monasteries were simultaneously a special, protected class and one of the most vulnerable populations – in some ways protected from the realities of the poverty-stricken world outside the monastic walls and the rigors of asceticism within, in other ways still vulnerable to the whims, desires, and ambitions of the adult monks around them. A status above the enslaved, but well below free adult men, children even in the monastery found their standing and status subject to negotiation. Children were in many ways a gift; caring for them was regarded as a sacred duty commanded directly by God. Their many needs and challenges, however, remained secondary to those of their adult caregivers. This chapter examines the education of children, their discipline (including corporal punishment), and their preparation for future lives as monastics.