Introduction à la démarche spirituelle des moines errants de l'Egypte copte (250-451). Une étude fondée sur la "Mission de Paphnuce" et les principales sources littéraires du monachisme errant de l'époque concernée

Having given the definition of the words "monks" and "wanderer", the thesis try to demonstrate that the spiritual step as it is presented by Evagrius Ponticus corresponding to the reality that was in the spirit of the wanderer monks in Coptic Egypt and not a philosophical construction, based mainly on his experience outside Egypt.
We will reconstitute and put in order the essential anachoristic monastic step, since the renouncement of marriage and fatherhood until the final getting of the Charism of the perfect and a saint on earth, as it appears from the main literary sources of that era.
The thesis is also based on three Coptic manuscripts, three Arabic Manuscripts and five Ethiopian Manuscripts of the "Mission of Paphnutius", a travel story written in the fourth century.
The thesis demonstrates also the characteristic idiorrhytmic and without doubt essentially reasonable of the step of the monks.