Inquiry About the Monks in Egypt

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Cain is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has authored five books, including The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009) and The Greek Historia monachorum i n Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century (Oxford, 2016). He also has co-edited two volumes, is the translator of Fathers of the Church 121 (St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians), and serves as Editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity. Zusammenfassung Presents one of the most fascinating! fantastical! and enigmatic pieces of literature to survive from the patristic period. In both its Greek original and Rufinus's Latin translation it was one of the most popular and widely disseminated works of monastic hagiography during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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• Authors: Rufinus of Aquileia, Rufinus of Aquileia, Andrew (TRN) Rufinus of Aquileia/ Cain
• Assisted by: Andrew Cain (Translation)
• Publisher: Catholic univ of america press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780813232645
• ISBN: 978-0-8132-3264-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Fathers of the Church; Fathers of the Church Series; Fathers of the Church Patristi
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries