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Jerome

news-seeking in Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit

Jerome ironically presented news-seeking in the Life of Paul the First Hermit. The Life of Mary of Egypt moved that game to a higher spiritual level. … Read the post news-seeking in Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit

Saint Jerome’s letters shows profound concern for women

Of Jerome’s 123 surviving letters, 36% are addressed to women. Jerome in his surviving letters addressed by name 20 different women. … Read the post Saint Jerome’s letters shows profound concern for women

beyond Origen: Jerome, spiritual doctor in Galen’s persona

Seeing Jerome in the persona of Origen obscures Jerome and Galen’s common position in Greek and Latin, Christian and non-Christian knowledge competition. … Read the post beyond Origen: Jerome, spiritual doctor in Galen’s persona

mocking stork gesture in Persius & Comoedia Lydiae (Lidia)

As the medieval Comoedia Lydiae indicates, the mocking stork gesture in Persius 1.58 ridicules, with literary sophistication, male heterosexual failure. … Read the post mocking stork gesture in Persius & Comoedia Lydiae (Lidia)

Theophrastus’s Golden Book on Marriage: Jerome’s creativity

Written by Saint Jerome, Theophrastus’ Golden Book on Marriage {Aureolus liber de nuptiis} inconceivably tells women what men want. … Read the post Theophrastus’s Golden Book on Marriage: Jerome’s creativity

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