During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and M

Wisdom on the Move explores the complexity and flexibility of wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. This book studies how sayings, maxims and expressi

Examines the most extensively illustrated codex of the Vitae patrum, The Lives of the Desert Fathers, to show how images made the practices of the desert saints

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.