RT Book
T1 The monk and the book: Jerome and the making of Christian scholarship
A2 Williams, Megan Hale 1969-
LA English
PP Chicago
PB University of Chicago Press
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/800194918
AB 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 linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship. Revisiting Jerome with the analytical tools of recent cultural history--including the work of Bourdieu, Foucault, and Roger Chartier--Williams proposes new interpretations that remove obstacles to understanding the life and legacy of the saint. Examining issues such as the construction of Jerome's literary persona, the form and contents of his library, and the intellectual framework of his commentaries, Williams shows that Jerome's textual and exegetical work on the Hebrew scriptures helped to construct a new culture of learning. This fusion of the identities of scholar and monk, Williams shows, continues to reverberate in the culture of the modern university
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index. - Description based on print version record
CN BR65.J476
SN 9780226899022
SN 0226899020
K1 Jerome -419 or 420
K1 Jerome : Saint : -419 or 420
K1 Jerome
K1 Learning and scholarship : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 RELIGION ; Christian Church ; History
K1 RELIGION ; Christianity ; History
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K1 Philosophy & Religion
K1 Christianity
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