num_pages: 144
description: Shenoute of Atripe, ranked second only to Pachomius for his contribution to the development of egyptian monasticism, is all but unknown outside the Coptic tradition. This first english translation of his Life, by his disciple and successor, casts new light on the austere monasticism of the fifth century.
language: English
title: The Life of Shenoute: Spiritual Desire in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs
publisher: Cistercian Publications