TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cain,Andrew
AU  - Jerome,
AU  - Jerome,
TI  - Jerome and the monastic clergy: a commentary on letter 52 to Nepotian, with introduction, text, and translation 
T2  - Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae
SN  - 9789004244382
AV  - BR65.J476 C35 2013
U1  - 271.009/015 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jerome,
KW  - Nepotian,
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Monastic and religious life
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-30 and 275-289) and indexes; Front Matter -- Introduction -- References -- Text and Translation -- Commentary -- Bibliography of Ancient Authors -- Indexes; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Jerome and the Monastic Clergy , Andrew Cain provides the first full-scale commentary on the famous Letter to Nepotian, in which Jerome articulates his radical plan for imposing a strict ascetic code of conduct on the contemporary clergy. Cain comprehensively addresses stylistic, literary, historical, text-critical and other issues of interpretive interest. Accompanying the commentary is an introduction which situates the Letter in the broader context of its author’s life and work and exposes its fundamental propagandistic dimensions. The revised critical Latin text and the new facing-page translation will make the Letter more accessible than ever before and will provide a reliable textual apparatus for future scholarship on this key writing by one of the most prolific authors in Latin antiquity
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004244382
ER  -