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Illuminating the Vitae patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy Cooking & food (Children's / Teenage) which adds skilful dabs ofDuring 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 Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings from the Vitae patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) and sermons but also through the images that brought their stories to life. In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library's richly