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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century

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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century - Cain, Andrew
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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has not received the intensive and sustained scholarly analysis that a monograph ...

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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century 2016, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198758259

Hardcover