GREEK HISTORIA MONACHORUM AEGYPTO OECS C

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-875825-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Oxford Early Christian Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain

Cain, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

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