Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt Rufinus of Aquileia ; translated by Andrew Cain, University of Colorado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cain, Andrew, translator, editor.

Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410, translator.

Series:

Fathers of the church ; Volume 139.

The fathers of the church, a new translation ; volume 139

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Monks.

Monasticism and religious orders--Early church.

Desert Fathers.

Monks--Egypt--Biography.

Desert Fathers--Biography.

Monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Egypt.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 238 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. : [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction. Rufinus's life and writings ; The anonymous Greek Historia monachorum and Rufinus's Latin Historia monachorum ; The new prophets and apostles ; The Egyptian monks as redeemers ; Evagrius of Pontus and his teachings in the LHM ; About this translation

Inquiry about the monks in Egypt. Prologue

John of Lycopolis

Or

Ammon

Bes

Oxyrhynchus

Theon

Apollo

Amoun

Copres

Sourous

Helle

Elias

Pityrion

Eulogius

Apelles and John

Paphnutius

Isidore's monastery

Sarapion

Apollonius

Dioscorus

Nitria

Kellia

Ammonius

Didymus

Cronius (Cronides)

Origen

Evagrius

Macarius of Egypt

Macarius of Alexandria

Amoun of Nitria

Paul the Simple

Piammon (Piammonas)

John of Diolcos

Epilogue.

Notes:

"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''--Jacket

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ISBN:

0-8132-3265-1

OCLC:

1137040233