Bridge between East and West: The Pattern of Fool for Christ through the Egypt in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Reconstructing the textual flows and the consequent affirmations of the fools of Christ cults, the Sinaitic area centrality appears very clear. This area was, in the Late Ancient and Early Medieval Ages, a true bridge connecting Palestine, Syria, Egypt and the European continent – in the conveyance of the idea and practice of the most ancient holy madness, the one synthesised by the sources of the 6th–7th centuries and marked by a very strong cultural vein of Syriac ancestry. The propelling centre of the sources we are interested in can be identified in late ancient Egypt, where the memories of Palestinian Sinaitic monasticism were channelled and spread from. Egypt was therefore a formidable bridge between East and West.