The Church Fathers · c. 385–465
The Discourses and Canons
Shenoute of Atripe · c. 348 – c. 465
What it is
The vast output of the abbot of the White Monastery, who ruled thousands of monks and nuns for eight decades: sermons against pagan landowners and their household shrines, letters disciplining his own communities, and rules enforced by beating.
Why it lasted
By far the largest body of original Coptic literature, and the reason Coptic exists as a literary language rather than only a spoken one. Shenoute is the only Egyptian father who wrote in Egyptian.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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