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16%OFFMegan Hale Williams - The Monk and the Book. Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship.  - 9780226899008 - V9780226899008
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The Monk and the Book. Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship.

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Description for The Monk and the Book. Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1640.

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its contradictions. While monasticism emphasizes the virtues of poverty, chastity, and humility, the scholar, by contrast, requires expensive infrastructure—a library, a workplace, and the means of disseminating his work. In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring ... Read more

"[Williams] has written a fascinating study, which provides a series of striking insights into the career of one of the most colorful and influential figures in Christian antiquity. Jerome's Latin Bible would become the foundational text for the intellectual development of the West, providing words for the deepest aspirations and most intensely held convictions of an entire civilization. Williams's book does much to illumine the circumstances in which that fundamental text was produced, and reminds us that great ideas, like great people, have particular origins, and their own complex settings."—Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books


 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226899008
SKU
V9780226899008
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