Endnote 2 – Strata: Monks at Work
For archaeological overview, see Louise Blanke, An Archaeology of Egyptian Monasticism: Settlement, Economy and Daily Life at the White Monastery Federation (New Haven: Yale Egyptology, 2019). For translations from Shenoute’s writings, see Bentley Layton, The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014) (referenced here as Layton #), and David Brakke and Andrew Crislip, Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015).