354 Pages
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Routledge
354 Pages
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Routledge
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By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field, the volume is organized in three sections by... Read more
Contents: Preface. Preliminary: A New Order of Books: The Epistula Rustici ad Eucherium: from the library of imperial classics to the library of the fathers. Literary Histories: Patristics and literary history: reflections on the programme of a new history of late antique Latin literature; Literacy and litteratura, A.D. 200-800. Jerome, Augustine and Readers: Jerome's Origen: the making of a Christian literary persona; Conference and confession: literary pragmatics in Augustine's 'Apologia contra Hieronymum'; The Augustinian reader; Opus imperfectum: Augustine and his readers, 426-435 A.D. Later Latin Textualities: Orthodoxy, 'Literature', Law: The forging of orthodoxy in Latin Christian literature: a case study; Peregrinus against the heretics: classicism, provinciality, and the place of the alien writer in late Roman Gaul; The origins of the Collectio Sirmondiana: a new look at the evidence. Scribes and Scholars: Between Patristics and Late Antiquity: The demise of the Christian writer and the remaking of 'late antiquity': from H.-I. Marrou's Saint Augustine (1938) to Peter Brown's Holy Man (1983); Erasmus' Jerome: the publishing of a Christian author; After the Maurists: the Oxford correspondence of Dom Germain Morin, OSB. Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
Biography
Mark Vessey is Associate Professor and has the Canada Research Chair in Literature/Christianity and Culture in the Department of English at University of British Columbia, Canada.
’Le lecteur termine la lecture de cet ouvrage avec gratitude, spécialement pour la richesse des interprétations, des résultats, des perspectives et des invitations à la réflexion.’ Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique
