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Inquiry About the Monks in Egypt (Hardcover)
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Inquiry About the Monks in Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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From September 394 to early January 395, seven monks from Rufinus
of Aquileia's monastery on the Mount of Olives made a pilgrimage to
Egypt to visit locally renowned monks and monastic communities.
Shortly af ter their return to Jerusalem, one of the party, whose
identity remains a mystery, wrote an engaging account of this trip.
Although he cast it in the form of a first-person travelogue, it
reads more like a book of mira cles that depicts the great
fourth-century Egyptian monks as prophets and apostles similar to
those in the Bible. This work was composed in Greek, yet it is best
known today as Historia monachorum in Aegypto (In quiry about the
Monks in Egypt), the title of the Latin translation of this work
made by Rufinus, the pilgrim-monks' abbot. The Historia monachorum
is 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 hagi ography
during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Modern scholars value it
not only for its intrinsic literary merits but also for its status,
alongside Athanasius's Life of Antony, the Pachomian dossier, and
other texts of this ilk, as one of the most important primary
sources for mo nasticism in fourth-century Egypt. Rufinus's
Historia monachorum is presented here in English transla tion in
its entirety. The introduction and annotations situate the work in
its literary, historical, religious, and theological contexts.
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