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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 status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality.

This monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Jerome's opus Paulinum in any language.

Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the icon...

Excerpt from Philippine GovernmentAn effort has been made to employ a vocabulary that is within the grasp of the Filipino youth. In some cases it has been necessary to use large or un familiar words in order to convey the exact meaning intended and to avoid the use of long and involved sentences. Such words have been used in construe tions that define them, formal definitions being avoided. A necessary large word can be understood much more re...

A study of the Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, one of the earliest pieces of monastic hagiography to survive in Greek.

Composed in 404, Jerome's Epitaph on Saint Paula (Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae) is an elaborate eulogy commemorating the life of Paula (347-404), a wealthy Christian widow from Rome who renounced her senatorial status and embraced an ascetic lifestyle and in 386 co-founded with Jerome a monastic complex in Bethlehem.

In Jerome and the Monastic Clergy Andrew Cain provides the first full-scale commentary on Jerome's famous Letter to Nepotian along with an introduction, newly revised Latin text, and English translation

Excerpt from Philippine Government An effort has been made to employ a vocabulary that is within the grasp of the Filipino youth. In some cases it has been necessary to use large or un familiar words in order to convey the exact meaning intended and to avoid the use of long and involved sentences. Such words have been used in construe tions that define them, formal definitions being avoided. A necessary large word can be understood much more ...

Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the icon...