Palladius of Aspuna:
The Lausiac History
Edited and Translated by John Wortley

Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid.

He wrote this elegant account of his visits to various monastic sites in Egypt toward the end of the fourth century AD for the imperial chamberlain Lausus. It is both the most sophisticated and the most informative of the few documents illustrating the earliest chapter in the history of Christian monasticism. Palladius’s work is also the only one of the major monastic writings not written for fellow monks to inspire them with models for their emulation, but rather for a man very much of the world, with the explicit intention of exerting not only religious but also political influence.
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