| Herculean Labours: Erasmus and the Editing of St. Jerome's Letters in the Renaissance Contributor(s): Pabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 900416961X ISBN-13: 9789004169616 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: Offering a detailed examination of various editorial interventions, this book demonstrates Erasmus of Rotterdam's self-promotion, religious purpose, and novelty in editing St. Jerome's letters, as well as his debt to previous and influence on subsequent editions of the Church Father. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Religion | Christianity - History - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 270.209 |
| LCCN: 2008021218 |
| Series: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - |
| Physical Information: 390 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
