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

About the Author

Eugene F. Rise Jr., is William R. Shephard Professor of History at Columbia University. Among his books are The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559, and The Prefatory Epistles of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and Related Texts.

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


Awards
Winner of Philip Schaff Prize 1989 (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9780801837470
Author Eugene F. Rice
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 567g