Publication

2020 - Catholic University of America Press

Language

English

Word Count

59,500 words, Guess

Page Count

238 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780813232645
  • ISBN-100813232643
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019013232
  • OCLC Control Number1091291335
  • Better World Books9780813232645
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBR195.M65H5713 2019
  • LCCBR195.M65 H5713 2019

Description

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 after 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 miracles 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 (Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt), the title of the Latin translation of this work made by Rufinus, the pilgrim-monks' abbot.

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