Book Summary
As one of the four "Doctors of the Church," Jerome is a veritable giant who bestrides the classical and medieval worlds. His Libellus de virginitate servanda, written in Rome in 384, sets out the manner of life appropriate to a Christian virgin. The Libellus is an extensive academic treatise, forty-one chapters long, covering many aspects of virginity. The enormous influence of this treatise throughout the whole of late antiquity and the middle ages attests to Jerome's brilliant success. Jerome created in the Libellus a scintillating patchwork of borrowings from his Greek and Latin patristic predecessors and contemporaries. The full extent of his debt to others is uncovered in this major commentary, the first in any language to be devoted entirely to the Libellus. Although the practice of unacknowledged quotation was common and acceptable throughout antiquity, Neil Adkin's commentary shows how far Jerome overstepped the limits, and also demonstrates how Jerome's brilliance as a writer enhanced his stolen material.
Book Details
| Book Name | Jerome On Virginity: A Commentary On The Libellus De Virginitate Servanda (Letter 22) |
| Author | Neil Adkin |
| Publisher | Francis Cairns Publications (Jul 2003) |
| ISBN | 9780905205380 |
| Pages | 458 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 6956 |