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Jerome and the Monastic Clergy
A Commentary on Letter 52 to Nepotian, with Introduction, Text, and Translation
Series: - Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 119
Author:
In Jerome and the Monastic Clergy, Andrew Cain provides the first full-scale commentary on the famous Letter to Nepotian, in which Jerome articulates his radical plan for imposing a strict ascetic code of conduct on the contemporary clergy. Cain comprehensively addresses stylistic, literary, historical, text-critical and other issues of interpretive interest. Accompanying the commentary is an introduction which situates the Letter in the broader context of its authorâs life and work and exposes its fundamental propagandistic dimensions. The revised critical Latin text and the new facing-page translation will make the Letter more accessible than ever before and will provide a reliable textual apparatus for future scholarship on this key writing by one of the most prolific authors in Latin antiquity.
Andrew Cain, Ph.D. (2003), Cornell University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the the University of Colorado. He has published numerous articles and books, including most recently Jeromeâs Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae, with an Introduction, Text, and Translation (Oxford, 2013)
Preface
References
Abbreviations
Introduction
Text and Translation
Commentary
Index of Ancient Authors
References
Abbreviations
Introduction
Text and Translation
Commentary
Index of Ancient Authors
Scholars and students interested in Jerome, the monastic movement and clerical culture in the fourth-century West, and Latin patristic literature in general