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

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

Par HilmarM. Pabel

Brill

Series: Library of the Written Word, 5

ISBN-13(i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13digits on 1 January 2007: 97890 04 16961 6

Table of contents

Introduction

I. Jeromein Print, 1467-1600

II.Classifying Jerome

III.Portraying Jerome

IV.Elucidating Jerome

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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Presentation de l'éditeur

The firstmonograph in English on Erasmus of Rotterdam as an editor of St. Jerome, this book belongs to the growingscholarship on the reception of the Church Fathers in early modern Europe. Erasmus, like other Renaissancehumanists, particularly admired Jerome (d. 419 or 420), and he expressed hisadmiration most conspicuously in his edition of Jerome's letters. Proclaiminghis editorial Herculean labours, Erasmus energetically promoted himself and hispublication. Erasmus' self-promotion cannot be reduced to a secularappropriation of Jerome, however. A detailed examination of a variety ofeditorial interventions demonstrates Erasmus' religious purpose, his debt toprevious editorial traditions as well as his editorial novelty, and hisinfluence 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 thereligious thought of Erasmus of Rotterdam, including Conversing with God:Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings (Toronto, 1997).