LEADER 04425nam 22006134a 450 001 9910822870403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96682-7 010 $a9786611966829 010 $a0-226-89902-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226899022 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578405 035 $a(EBL)408560 035 $a(OCoLC)476229641 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000205228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191681 035 $a(PQKB)11476514 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408560 035 $a(DE-B1597)522692 035 $a(OCoLC)1055419215 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226899022 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265909 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196682 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578405 100 $a20060411d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe monk and the book$b[electronic resource] $eJerome and the making of Christian scholarship /$fMegan Hale Williams 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-89900-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-312) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aRELIGION / General$2bisacsh 610 $achristian, christianity, faith, belief, religion, religious studies, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, jerome, sect, monastic, west, western, middle ages, classics, poverty, chastity, morals, values, humility, monastics, asceticism, scholarship, university, education, culture, cultural, bourdieu, foucault, chartier, saint. 615 7$aRELIGION / General. 676 $a270.2092 700 $aWilliams$b Megan Hale$f1969-$0443500 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822870403321 996 $aThe monk and the book$93948814 997 $aUNINA