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In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its contradictions. While monasticism emphasizes the virtues of poverty, chastity, and humility, the scholar, by contrast, requires expensive infrastructure-a library, a workplace, and the means of disseminating his work. In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship. Revisiting Jerome with the analytical tools of recent cultural history-including the work of Bourdieu, Foucault, and Roger Chartier-Williams proposes new interpretations that remove obstacles to understanding the life and legacy of the saint. Examining issues such as the construction of Jerome's literary persona, the form and contents of his library, and the intellectual framework of his commentaries, Williams shows that Jerome's textual and exegetical work on the Hebrew scriptures helped to construct a new culture of learning. This fusion of the identities of scholar and monk, Williams shows, continues to reverberate in the culture of the modern university. "[Williams] has written a fascinating study, which provides a series of striking insights into the career of one of the most colorful and influential figures in Christian antiquity. Jerome's Latin Bible would become the foundational text for the intellectual development of the West, providing words for the deepest aspirations and most intensely held convictions of an entire civilization. Williams's book does much to illumine the circumstances in which that fundamental text was produced, and reminds us that great ideas, like great people, have particular origins, and their own complex settings."-Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books

RELIGION / General. --- Jerome, --- Gerolamo, --- Gérome, --- Gerónimo, --- Girolamo, --- Heronimos, --- Hieronim, --- Hieronymus, Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, --- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, Stridonensis, --- Ieronim, Stridonskiĭ, --- Iheronimus, --- Jerónimo, --- Jerōnimos, --- 276 =71 HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS --- Latijnse patrologie--HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS --- Jeronimi, --- Fathers of the church. --- Pères de l'Eglise --- Jerome --- Hieronymus presb. --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420 --- christian, christianity, faith, belief, religion, religious studies, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, jerome, sect, monastic, west, western, middle ages, classics, poverty, chastity, morals, values, humility, monastics, asceticism, scholarship, university, education, culture, cultural, bourdieu, foucault, chartier, saint. --- Jérôme (0345?-0420) --- Christianisme et culture --- Ascétisme --- saint --- Savoir et érudition --- Critique et interprétation --- 4e-siècle

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Ten years after completing his work 'The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, 'Bolognese painter Domenichino was accused by his rival Giovanni Lanfranco of stealing the idea for the painting from an altarpiece crafted by Lanfranco's teacher, Agostino Carracci. The resulting scandal reverberated through the centuries, drawing responses by artists and critics from Poussin and Malvasia to Fuseli and Delacroix. Why was Domenichino attacked in this way when other related paintings& including Raphael's 'Marriage of the Virgin 'and Perugino's painting of the same subject& aroused no such negative response? In this fast-paced book, Elizabeth Cropper investigates the Domenichino affair and addresses the perennial debate regarding the precise nature of originality and of imitation. She offers close readings of the paintings involved in the story, detailed analysis of attitudes toward imitation, emulation, and plagiarism, and a fascinating discussion of what Domenichino's plight signifies in art history.

Painting --- Aesthetics of art --- Domenichino --- Jerome --- Carracci, Agostino --- Rome --- Imitatie in de kunst --- Imitation dans l'art --- Imitation in art --- Imitation in art. --- Painting, Renaissance --- Domenichino, --- Carracci, Agostino, --- Jerome, --- Authorship. --- Art --- Pictures --- Appropriation (Art) --- Mimesis in art --- Reproduction --- Copying --- Carrache, Augustin, --- Caracci, Agostino, --- Gerolamo, --- Gérome, --- Gerónimo, --- Girolamo, --- Heronimos, --- Hieronim, --- Hieronymus, Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, --- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, Stridonensis, --- Ieronim, Stridonskiĭ, --- Iheronimus, --- Jerónimo, --- Jerōnimos, --- Domenico, Zampieri --- Authorship --- Painting [Renaissance ] --- Italy --- Jeronimi,