Toward a Monastic Order of Books
Toward a Monastic Order of Books
This chapter collects evidence for the physical appearance of Jerome's books, their format, materials, and cost. A reconstruction of the physical form of the books that Jerome used situates his literary activities more firmly in a specific place and time. A concrete idea of what Jerome's books looked like can serve as a useful safeguard against the tendency to picture him in the more familiar guises of a classical or a medieval scholar. Jerome's literary monasticism was a thoroughly late antique phenomenon. This is as true for the physical media through which he used and produced texts as it is for the model of the monastic life with which he was presented, one that left open no obvious place for a literary career.
Keywords: Saint Jerome, books, literary monasticism, monastic life
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