Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity And Their Texts

by Vessey,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780860789819
• ISBN10: 0860789810
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781040233931
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field, the volume is organized in three sections by authors, forms of discourse, and disciplines. Released from the theological discipline of patristics, the writings of the church fathers have in recent decades become the common property of students of early Christianity, late antiquity and the classical tradition. In principle, they are now no more (nor less) than sources, documents and literary texts like others from their period and milieux. Yet when replaced in the longer history of Western textual and literary practices, the collective literary oeuvre of Latin clerics, monks and ascetic freelances of the Later Roman Empire may still seem to occupy a place of decisive, if not canonical importance. How does one now account for the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth and fifth centuries CE? What demands does such writing lay on a modern history of literature? These are the questions asked here, in view of a new literary history of patristic texts.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PRELIMINARY: A NEW ORDER OF BOOKS
I The Epistula Rustici ad Eucherium: from the library of imperial classics to the library of the fathers	278	(63)
Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources, ed. Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2001
LITERARY HISTORIES
II Patristics and literary history: reflections on the programme of a new history of late antique Latin literature	341
Journal of Literature and Theology 5. Oxford, 1991
III Literacy and litteratura, A.D. 200-800	139
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History N.S. 13. New York, 1992
JEROME, AUGUSTINE AND READERS
IV Jerome's Origen: the making of a Christian literary persona	135	(40)
Studia Patristica 28. Leuven, 1993
V Conference and confession: literary pragmatics in Augustine's 'Apologia contra Hieronymum'	175
Journal of Early Christian Studies 1. Baltimore, MD, 1993
VI The Augustinian reader	1	(263)
Review of Brian Stock, Augustine the Reader. Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.1. Bryn Mawr, PA, 1996
VII Opus impeectum: Augustine and his readers, 426 /135 A.D.	264	(231)
Vigiliae Christianae 52. Leiden, 1998
LATER LATIN TEXTUALITIES: ORTHODOXY, 'LITERATURE', LAW
VIII The forging of orthodoxy in Latin Christian literature: a case study	495	(34)
Journal of Early Christian Studies 4. Baltimore, MD, 1996
IX Peregrinus against the heretics: classicism, provinciality, and the place of the alien writer in late Roman Gaul	529
Studia Ephemerides Augustinianum 46. Rome, 1994
X The origins of the Collectio Sirmondiana: a new look at the evidence	178	(199)
The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity, ed. Jill Harries and Ian Wood. London: Duckworth, 1993
SCRIBES AND SCHOLARS: BETWEEN PATRISTICS AND LATE ANTIQUITY
XI The demise of the Christian writer and the remaking of 'late antiquity': from H.-I. Marrou's Saint Augustine (1938) to Peter Brown's Holy Man (1983)	377
Journal of Early Christian Studies 6. Baltimore, MD, 1998
XII Erasmus' Jerome: the publishing of a Christian author	62	(103)
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 14. Lexington, KY 1994
XIII After the Maurists: the Oxford correspondence of Dom Germain Morin, OSB	165
Patristique et Antiquité tardive en Allemagne et en France de 1870 à 1930: Influences et échanges. Ades du Colloque franco-allemand de Chantilly (25-27 octobre 1991), ed. Jacques Fontaine, Reinhart Herzog and Karla Pollmann. Paris, 1993
Addenda and Corrigenda	1	(1)
Index	1