Saint Jerome in the Renaissance

Eugene F Rice author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Aug '88

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An important and beautiful book. -- Charles Trinkaus, University of Michigan

Just as they aspired to revive the Greek and Roman past, so the humanist scholars of the Renaissance sought to retrieve the early Christian era. Among the most fully studied figures of Christian antiquity was Saint Jerome. Eugene Rice's award-winning book traces the saint's changing images and fortunes from 1300 to 1600 and charts how culture-- popular and elite, secular and sacred, pietistic and scholarly-- celebrated those aspects of Jerome's life that best suited its own purposes.

An invaluable reference guide for scholars in all fields who seek a contextual analysis of Renaissance references to the Saint. Journal of Religion

  • Winner of Philip Schaff Prize 1989 (United States)

ISBN: 9780801837470

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 567g

304 pages