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Monastic Hospitals in Byzantine Egypt: Pachomius and Shenoute's Hospitals as Coenobitic models

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Abstract

Caring the sick is a fundamental concept in early Christian Egypt. its development in Egypt affected by the previous healthcare stages, up till it reaches its form of monastic hospitals. Defining the phenomenon of monastic hospitals in byzantine Egypt as one of the healthcare facilities in this period, and showing the efforts of early Coptic fathers to offer models for the coming centuries, are very important. Byzantine monastic hospitals were charitable institutions, and were differed in some aspects from all classical healthcare facilities (healing temples of gods and goddesses, physicians' clinics or shops, public physicians, slaves' hospitals, and military hospitals) that were before the fourth century AD, in Egypt. Early monastic fathers developed the hospitals as independent building inside their monasteries for serving the sick and the needy, who came to hospitals to receive shelter, food, and medical care. Early Coenobitic fathers, like Sts. Pachomius and Shenoute put the rules and regulations to organize healthcare facilities in their monastic communities. The objectives of this study are; firstly, to show the distinguished characteristics of Byzantine monastic hospital, that make it differ from the previous healthcare facilities in Egypt. Secondly, to declare the Pachomius's rules and Shenoute's canons, that were related to their hospitals and healthcare facilities in their monasteries as models for healthcare systems in Coenobitic monasteries in Byzantine Egypt.

DOI

10.21608/sis.2020.43181.1008

Keywords

Healthcare facilities in Byzantine Egypt, Pachomius hospitals, Shenoute hospitals, Monastic hospitals in Byzantine Egypt, Byzantine hospitals in Egypt

Authors

First Name

Karim

Last Name

Yassin

MiddleName

Anwar

Affiliation

Tourism Guidance, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University of Sadat-City, Egypt.

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karim.anwar@fth.usc.edu.eg

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Sadat-City

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First Name

Nashwa

Last Name

Soliman

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Tourist Guiding Department ,Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Sadat City University

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City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

Nader

Last Name

Zekry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Touist Guiding Department ,Faculty of Tourism and Hotels ,Sadat City University

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City

Sadat City

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Volume

1

Article Issue

1

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18721

Issue Date

2020-11-01

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2020-09-16

Publish Date

2020-11-01

Page Start

55

Page End

69

Print ISSN

2682-4329

Online ISSN

2735-3044

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4

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Original Research

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1,291

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Publication Title

Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage

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https://sjs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Monastic Hospitals in Byzantine Egypt: Pachomius and Shenoute's Hospitals as Coenobitic models

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22 Jan 2023