Rufinus’ "Historia monachorum in Aegypto" and the Promulgation of Evagrian Ascetic Teaching
Around 403 Rufinus composed his Historia monachorum in Aegypto, a Latin translation of Ἡ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον τῶν µοναχῶν ἱστορία (“Inquiry about the Monks of Egypt”). This Greek work, authored anonymously years earlier by one of the monks in his monastery on the Mount of Olives, chronicles the author’s mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2017, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 285-314 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints |
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Historia monachorum
Rufinus
Evagrius of Pontus
Egyptian monasticism
hagiography
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