Hieronymus Romanus
Subtitle: Studies on Jerome and Rome on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of his death
By: edited by Ingo Schaaf with the participation of Emanuela Prinzivalli, Barbara Feichtinger, Giuseppe Caruso
Series: Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia (IPM) -- 87; Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia -- 87.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9782503592596
Subjects: Church history; Primitive and early church
Description: Rome, be it as a concrete space, be it as a concept and idea, occupies an outstanding place in the thoughts and actions of Jerome of Stridon (c. 347-419). Glowing propagandist of the ideal of asceticism in the Latin sphere and highly influential scholar of the Bible, he received his philological education here as well as his baptism. Beyond this background of study and adherence to the church of Rome, the Urbs continued to hold a key position for him, who under the pontificate of Damasus established himself as a mediator between East and West and translator of Scripture. A sharp-tongued and increasingly controversial figure at the same time, Jerome subsequently turned into the target of antiascetic criticism and, once bereft of papal protection, had to leave Rome for good. However, even in distant Palestine, the city on the Tiber and its memories remained present in the writings of Jerome, who did not stop using a Roman network in order to have his works circulate within the Urbs and eventually lamented its fall as that of "the entire world in a city". From multifaceted perspectives - historical, philological, theological, exegetical and archaeological - the papers collected in this volume explore Rome's unique and exemplary meaning for Jerome's life and works. In the juxtaposition of both lieux de mémoire, the father of the Church and the Urbs, this reciprocal thematic cut illuminates additional aspects of a Roma Christiana as imagined by Jerome, and of the Stridonian himself as both key figurations of Late Antiquity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductiva; title: Stadtgespräch: Hieronymus und Rom im Dialog der Spätantike / Ingo Schaaf; title: Girolamo e il "bel mondo" di Roma / Emanuela Prinzivalli; title: Hieronymus und Aurelius von Karthago: Eine (Nicht-)Begegnung in Rom / Barbara Feichtinger; title: Girolamo, Pelagio e Roma / Giuseppe Caruso.; title: Historiographica; title: Auratum squalet Capitolium: La città di Roma al tempo di Girolamo / Massimiliano Ghilardi; title: The History of Israel and the Early History of Rome in the Light of Jerome's Writings / Eberhard Bons.; title: Ecclesiastica; title: Sub umbra Damasi: I rapporti fra Girolamo e Ambrosiaster alla luce del progetto ecclesiologico di Damaso / Emanuele Di Santo; title: La veste del sacerdote cristiano fra spunti esegetici ed esigenze ascetiche: Un'indagine sul punto di vista di Girolamo, a partire dalla lettera alla romana Fabiola / Carla Noce.; title: Ascetica; title: L'ascetismo romano fra Damaso e Siricio / Roberto Alciati; title: Bethlehem contra Romam? Il tema dell'angulus declinato nelle Epistole geronimiane / Giorgia Grandi.; title: Polemica; title: Dalla polemica contro Gioviniano alla polemica antiorigeniana / Francesco Pieri; title: Origenes in Rom: Hieronymus und Rufinus über die Frage, wie man Origenes lesen soll / Alfons Fürst.; title: Exegetica; title: Come nasce un filologo / Leopoldo Gamberale; title: Gerolamo interprete dei Salmi nel periodo romano / Alessandro Capone.; title: Romae Halosis; title: Tacui sciens tempus esse lacrimarum: Girolamo legge Roma e la sua caduta alla luce della Scrittura / Sincero Mantelli; title: De occidente rumor (Hier. epist. 127, 12): Hieronymus' Blick auf Rom aus dem Osten / Ulrich Eigler.; title: Repercussiones; title: "Roma" in the Letters of Jerome: A Pattern and Sentiment Analysis / Marie Revellio.