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The monk and the book [electronic resource] : Jerome and the making of Christian scholarship / Megan Hale Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: утп Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 315 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226899022 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226899020 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226899004 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226899008 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Monk and the book.DDC classification:
  • 270.2092 22
LOC classification:
  • BR65.J476 W55 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The making of a Christian writer -- Experiments in exegesis -- Interpretation and the construction of Jerome's authority -- Jerome's library -- Toward a monastic order of books -- The book and the voice -- Readers and patrons.
Summary: 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.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 27-9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-312) and index.

The making of a Christian writer -- Experiments in exegesis -- Interpretation and the construction of Jerome's authority -- Jerome's library -- Toward a monastic order of books -- The book and the voice -- Readers and patrons.

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.

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