The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
- 329p
- Oxford Early Christian Studies; 201600ENGGPS1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
The Text .........9 Provenance, date and Authorship.........33 Genre........58 Literary influences and Intertexts...74 Style .....92 The pilgrimage : Reality and Representations ........125 The new prophets and Apostles ...........146 Characterization and the Unholy Other .......182 Through them the world is Sustained ..................195 A manual for Monastic Living .........214 Piety and propaganda .........245