Late Antique Historiography

History of the monks in Egypt

Title(s):
  • History of the monks in Egypt
  • Ἡ κατ᾿ Αἴγυπτον τῶν μοναχῶν ἱστορία
    (Hē kat’Aigupton tōn monachōn historia, The history of the monks in Egypt)
  • Historia monachorum in Aegypto
    (Historia monachorum in Aegypto, History of monks in Egypt)
  • Βίος τῶν ἐν Αἴγυπτῶι μοναχῶν
    (Bios tōn en Aiguptō monachōn, Life of the monks in Egypt)
Author:
Period covered:
4th c.
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
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Edition - Translation:
  • A.-J. Festugière (1971) Historia monachorum in Aegypto: Édition critique du texte grec et traduction annotée (Subsidia hagiographica, 53). Brussels.
  • N. Russell (1980) The Lives of the desert fathers: The Historia monachorum in Aegypto. Kalamazoo.
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Bibliography:
  • A. Cain (2016) The Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic hagiography in the late fourth century. Oxford.