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Author Pabel, Hilmar M., 1964-

Title Herculean labours : Erasmus and the editing of St. Jerome's letters in the Renaissance / by Hilmar M. Pabel
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Library of the written word ; v. 5. The handpress world, 1874-4834 ; v. 3
Library of the written word ; 5.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 3.
Contents Jerome in print, 1467-1600 -- Classifying Jerome -- Portraying Jerome -- Elucidating Jerome
Summary 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 e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-378) and index
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Subject Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 -- Correspondence
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
SUBJECT Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 fast
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 fast
Hieronymus, helgon, approximately 347-420 -- brev. sao
Erasmus, Desiderius. swd
Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius. swd
Edition_ gnd
Epistulae. swd
Subject RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Bokförläggare -- historia -- renässansen.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047442233
9047442237
1283061201
9781283061209
9786613061201
6613061204