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Author_Megan Hale Williams
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- ISBN 9780226215303
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2014
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship. Revisiting Jerome with the analytical tools of recent cultural history - including the work of Bourdieu, Foucault, and Roger Chartier-Williams proposes new interpretations that remove obstacles to understanding the life and legacy of the saint.
Megan Hale Williams is associate professor of history at San Francisco State University. She is coauthor, with Anthony Grafton, of Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea.
