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The letters of Jerome : asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity /
In life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality. - ;In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.347-420) was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did n. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-272) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191568411 0191568414 |