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

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Oxford University Press, 2016 - 329 עמודים
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.
 

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Introduction
1
The Text
9
Provenance Date and Authorship
33
Genre
58
Literary Influences and Intertexts
74
Style
92
The Pilgrimage Reality and Representation
125
The New Prophets and Apostles
146
A Manual for Monastic Living
214
Piety and Propaganda
245
Bibliography
271
General Index
309
Index of Greek Words
315
Index of Latin Words
317
Index of Biblical Citations
318
Index of Ancient Sources
320

Characterization and the Unholy Other
182
Through Them the World is Sustained
195

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

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