TITLU în română: Egiptul monastic la sfârşitul secolului al IV-lea: citind Historia Lausiaca
Subiect: Along with the 400 anonymous Historia monachorum in Aegypto, the Historia Lausiaca, which was composed in 419-420, constitutes the chief sources for early Egyptian monastic history. Its author, Palladius, born in Galatia in 363, he became a monk in Palestine in 388, moving then to Egypt. Having a tumultuous life, he experienced for many years Egyptian monasticism. He travelled the vast country, spoke to the main monastic characters of that time, and was even a disciple of one of the most influential of them, Evagrius. The immense popularity of Palladius’s work, which was copied and recopied many times in Greek, sometimes not without additions, as well as the common aspects it shares with other works, such as the Historia monachorum, create serious difficulties regarding the exact identification of the original Greek text. However, beyond the common sources that the Historia Lausiaca has with other works, there are some aspects of clear originality, which distinguish the work of Palladius from those of other authors. All over, Historia Lausiaca represents an outstanding source to the highly relevant phenomenon of Egyptian monasticism at the end of the fourth century.
