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The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (Transformation of the ...

1 review
Georgia Frank

University of California Press, 2000

The Memory of Eyes
The hopeful assertion that frames this elegant study is that "the pilgrim's experience is never completely beyond our reach" (82). In this revision of her 1994 Harvard dissertation, Professor Frank has her scholarly sights fixed on the "religious sensibilities" of late ancient Christians, gleaned primarily (although not exclusively) from two Christian accounts of pilgrimages to visit Egyptian ...

Aegypto

1 review
John Crowley

Minotauro, 1992

Looking for the Lost Country.
Minotauro is an old and prestigious sci-fi & fantasy collection that made available to Spanish speaking public many genre classic as Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles", Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids", Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" or Sturgeon's "More Than Human". The editorial house has recently launched a new bunch of hardcover new books, as the present one and also re-edited in a smaller and ...

The Lives of the Desert Fathers: Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)

5 reviews

Cistercian Publications, 1981

Primo
This is a must read for anyone who wants to know about Christianity in the Middle East before the Muslim conquests and the following massacres. The recounts are made by those who saw the events take place and were able to record them without a great relapse of time. I encourage everyone to read this and take it all in, read it a few times, about one year after the last time you read it and ...