Resumen de Le désert des moines latins
The Latin literature of early Christianity approached the desert according to the description given by the Scriptures and the Lives of the Eastern fathers, who had perceived it less as a particular landscape than as a supernatural space, inhabited by both demons and angels. The Latin monks thus appropriated the Oriental concept of (h)eremus, to designate first of all the islands colonised by the western anchorites, and then the forests and all the rural spaces in which they settled. By describing their monastic places as desert, the Latin monks were led to think of them as a demonic world transformed into a Garden of Eden, according to a stereotyped model that allowed them to affirm the separation and therefore the sacredness of the spaces they had appropriated
