1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454426703321

Autore

Williams Megan Hale <1969->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-96682-7

9786611966829

0-226-89902-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

270.2092

Soggetti

RELIGION / General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. "[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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337808503321

Titolo

Operational Research in the Digital Era – ICT Challenges : 6th International Symposium and 28th National Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2017 / / edited by Angelo Sifaleras, Konstantinos Petridis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-95666-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, , 2198-7254

Disciplina

001.30285

Soggetti

Operations research

Management science

Business information services

Operations Research and Decision Theory

Operations Research, Management Science

IT in Business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Final Energy Consumption Forecasting by Applying Artificial Intelligence Models -- Chapter 2. Game theoretic approaches in cloud and P2P networks: Issues and challenges -- Chapter 3. A proactive model for joint maintenance and logistics optimization in the frame of Industrial Internet of Things -- Chapter 4. Adoption of Digital Currencies: The Companies’ Perspective -- Chapter 5. Unemployment Prediction in UK by Using a Feedforward Multilayer Perceptron -- Chapter 6. Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for BIG Data application -- Chapter 7. Vehicle Routing Problem for Urban Freight Transportation: A Review of the Recent Literature -- Chapter 8. Development of a framework for the assessment of soft skills in the ICT sector -- Chapter 9. Cloud Computing Adoption Decision in E-government -- Chapter 10. A unified framework for decision-making process on social media analytics.

Sommario/riassunto

This proceedings volume highlights the role and importance of Operational Research (OR) in the digital era and the underlying ICT challenges. The selected papers cover recent advances in all branches of operational research, mathematical modeling and decision making. It covers a wide range of key areas from digital economy, to supply chain management, and also finance. The book adopts an applied perspective that covers the contributions of OR in the broad field of business and economics linked with the discipline of computer science. The chapters are based on papers presented at the 6th International Symposium & 28th National Conference on Operational Research. Although the conference is organized by the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS), the contributions in this book promotes international co-operation among researchers and practitioners working in the field.