The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West By Jitse Dijkstra, Mathilde van Dijk
2006 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 9004155309 | PDF | 4 MB
2006 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 9004155309 | PDF | 4 MB
The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.