«Iuxta paradisum»: mundos imaginarios en la hagiografía tardoantigua de oriente y de occidente

Abstract

Through two hagiographic late antique sources, the «Vita Sancti Macarii Romani» and the «Navigatio Brendani», we will try to analyze a new Christian concept of the geographic space shaped by means of the metaphor of the travel; travel that the protagonists, monks in both cases, undertake towards a real and, at the same time, imaginary destiny: the earthly paradise.