Cours d'étude pour l'instruction du prince de Parme, aujourd'hui S.A.R. l'infant D. Ferdinand, duc de Parme, Plaisance, Guastalle &c. &c. &c. [Tomo 8] / par M. l'Abbé de Condillac ... Tome huitieme. Introd. a l'etude de l'hist. ancienne

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991000960779707536
• Autore: Condillac, Etienne : Bonnot de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: A Londres : Chez les Libraires Francois, 1776
• Descrizione fisica: xxxviii, 532 p. ; 12⁰ (18 cm)
• Collana: Cours d'étude pour l'instruction du prince de Parme, aujourd'hui S.A.R. l'infant D. Ferdinand, duc de Parme, Plaisance, Guastalle &c. &c. &c.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Segnatura: a12 b7 A-Y12 Z2; Testate, fregi

The monk and the book : Jerome and the making of Christian scholarship / / Megan Hale Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970742203321
• Autore: Williams Megan Hale <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• ISBN: 9786611966829; 9781281966827; 1281966827; 9780226899022; 0226899020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.2092
• Soggetti: RELIGION / General
• 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