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

ISBN-13: 9780198758259 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 2016 / 368 str.

Andrew Cain

Opis

Winner of the Kayden Book Award

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 affords. In this study, Andrew Cain incorporates insights from source criticism, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, and historical, geographical, and theological studies in an attempt to break new ground and revise current scholarly orthodoxy about a broad range of interpretive issues and problems.

Recenzje

Cain has written a study of this which will prove invaluable to all those interested in late antique monasticism, Egypt and hagiography, with chapters on the text, the authorship, the genre, the literary influences and the style before moving on to look more directly at what the work describes... Cain's book though is a wonderfully learned and informative study of this most engaging of ancient texts.

O autorze

Andrew Cain is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.