Jerome and the Monastic Clergy

A Commentary on Letter 52 to Nepotian, with Introduction, Text, and Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-23706-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1440 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

In Jerome and the Monastic Clergy, Andrew Cain provides the first full-scale commentary on the famous Letter to Nepotian, in which Jerome articulates his radical plan for imposing a strict ascetic code of conduct on the contemporary clergy. Cain comprehensively addresses stylistic, literary, historical, text-critical and other issues of interpretive interest. Accompanying the commentary is an introduction which situates the Letter in the broader context of its author’s life and work and exposes its fundamental propagandistic dimensions. The revised critical Latin text and the new facing-page translation will make the Letter more accessible than ever before and will provide a reliable textual apparatus for future scholarship on this key writing by one of the most prolific authors in Latin antiquity.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students interested in Jerome, the monastic movement and clerical culture in the fourth-century West, and Latin patristic literature in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
References
Abbreviations
Introduction
Text and Translation
Commentary
Index of Ancient Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Cain, Andrew
Andrew Cain, Ph.D. (2003), Cornell University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the the University of Colorado. He has published numerous articles and books, including most recently Jerome’s Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae, with an Introduction, Text, and Translation (Oxford, 2013).

Andrew Cain, Ph.D. (2003), Cornell University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the the University of Colorado. He has published numerous articles and books, including most recently Jerome’s Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae, with an Introduction, Text, and Translation (Oxford, 2013)