Evagrius Ponticus, Letters. Armenian Translation

Edited by R. Darling Young Edited by H. Karapetyan

Book cover: Evagrius Ponticus, Letters. Armenian Translation

Extent: 252 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

Series volume number: 704, 33

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9789042947016

Price: $125.00

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eBook (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9789042947023

Price: $125.00

This book is a critical edition of a medieval reworking of the fourth-century Letters and additional works of Evagrius of Pontus. The Medieval Armenian collection presents the letters not as letters by Evagrius alone but as a correspondence of Evagrius with his advisor Melania the Elder. Continually interwoven with Biblical texts, they show the monastic teacher as gnostikos guiding his female ascetic pupil. As a fourth-century philosopher and monastic, Evagrius wrote treatises, kephalaia and scholia discussing knowledge, biblical interpretation and ethics. A follower of the teachings of Clement and Origen, he strongly influenced the intellectual development of monastic life in the East and in the Latin-speaking West. Although some of his writings were destroyed in their original Greek following the condemnations of 543/553, many survived in Syriac and Armenian; in the medieval Armenian monastic setting, they influenced later monastic teachers including Gregory Narekats’i.

  • Edited by R. Darling Young
  • Edited by H. Karapetyan