H M Pabel Herculean Labours Erasmus and the Editing of St Jerom s Letters in the Renaissance

Herculean Labours: Erasmus and the Editing of St. Jerome's Letters in the Renaissance

Par Hilmar M. Pabel

Brill

Series: Library of the Written Word, 5

ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 16961 6

Table of contents

Introduction

I. Jerome in Print, 1467-1600

II. Classifying Jerome

III. Portraying Jerome

IV. Elucidating Jerome

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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Presentation de l'éditeur

The first monograph in English on Erasmus of Rotterdam as an editor of St. Jerome, this book belongs to the growing scholarship on the reception of the Church Fathers in early modern Europe. Erasmus, like other Renaissance humanists, particularly admired Jerome (d. 419 or 420), and he expressed his admiration most conspicuously in his edition of Jerome's letters. Proclaiming his editorial Herculean labours, Erasmus energetically promoted himself and his publication. Erasmus' self-promotion cannot be reduced to a secular appropriation of Jerome, however. A detailed examination of a variety of editorial interventions demonstrates Erasmus' religious purpose, his debt to previous editorial traditions as well as his editorial novelty, and his influence on subsequent sixteenth-century editions of Jerome.

L'auteur

Hilmar M. Pabel, Ph.D. (1992) in History, Yale University, is Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He has published widely on the religious thought of Erasmus of Rotterdam, including Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings (Toronto, 1997).