The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West

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Jitse Dijkstra, Mathilde van Dijk "The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West"
Brill | 2006-10-30 | ISBN: 9004155309 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,3 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.

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