Jerome’s Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae. By Andrew Cain
‘Clean clothes and a clean body bespeak a dirty mind.’ These imperishable words, which deserve to be inscribed over the entrance to every launderette in the land, were the favourites of St Paula, lifelong lady-friend and co-alousiast of St Jerome, himself incontrovertibly the most dirty-minded of al...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 304-306 |
| Review of: | Jerome's Epitaph on Paula (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013) (Adkin, Neil)
Jerome's Epitaph on Paula (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013) (Adkin, Neil) |
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| Summary: | ‘Clean clothes and a clean body bespeak a dirty mind.’ These imperishable words, which deserve to be inscribed over the entrance to every launderette in the land, were the favourites of St Paula, lifelong lady-friend and co-alousiast of St Jerome, himself incontrovertibly the most dirty-minded of all Church Fathers (cf. the present writer, Jerome on Virginity: A Commentary on the ‘Libellus de virginitate servanda’ [Letter 22] [Cambridge, 2003], p. 455 [index s.v. ‘prurience’]). Paula’s apophthegm is enshrined in Jerome’s Letter 108 (his Epitaphium S. Paulae [20. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu020 |