The letters of Jerome : asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / Andrew Cain.

In life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for st...

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Main Author: Cain, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
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