...Jeffrey Jerome Cohen © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-05 Cohen 2/26/01 7:00 PM Page 113 a On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval...

... this. Jerome, for example, expressed dismay that “clerics, monks, and others who lead celibate lives” had accepted Jovinian’s view that marriage and celibacy were equally meritorious. “They cut themselves off from their wives in order to imitate the chastity of virgins,” Jerome complained, “and yet...

..., Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla responds to the criticsm that he was singularly audacious to think he could translate scripture better than Saint Jerome: So if I am correcting anything, I am not correcting Sacred Scrip- ture, but rather its translation, and in doing so I am...

... University of California, Riverside Riverside, California While defending the veneration of relics against their Gallic detractor Vigi- lantius (who scorned such veneration as mere idolatry),1 monk and man- of-letters Jerome described a charged moment at which a scriptural...

... by the previous ambassador, Sir Jerome Bowes, whose brash, arrogant diplo- macy was fresh in the minds of the Muscovites. Fletcher spent eleven months in Russia, from September 1588 until August 1589. Although he had to conduct his negotiations in an atmosphere of acrimony and distrust, the embassy achieved more...

... a framework for blacks as recipient of God’s wrath. The language of the early exegetes is filled with the binary images of black and white, darkness and light. Jerome, for example, states that “we are all Ethiopians” before our black natures are washed white...

... As it is theorized in late antiquity, the processes of cultural imperialism were stated with revealing candor. Thus Jerome (d. 420), for example, offered an account of how Christian writers were to exploit classical pagan sources. Having dismissed pagan works as entirely empty, Jerome quietly shifts his position...

... was constituted by Christ, as Jerome said upon this place that He who searches the mysteries of the human heart assigned here the Order of the Apostles and the merits of each one. And likewise against Jovin[ian], Jerome said that among the twelve one was chosen as the head so...

... from the inhabited world became truly mythic. In the process, the desert myth linked up with the themes of the edges of the earth so common to ancient geography. 28 Jerome, for example, in an apparent effort to “outdistance” Athana- sius, fashioned the story of the monk Paul, who lived deep...

... tralatione abstinuit.” 98 Bodl. MS Lat. misc. f. 2, fol. 132r: “Librum Misnaioth Judaei Tiberienses (apud quos, dudum conditus erat à Juda Praefecto) obtulére B. Hieronymo.” On Jerome's presentation of his Jewish teachers, see Megan Williams, The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian...

... on chastity evokes Jerome’s famous letter to Eustochium, in which the church father represents the preservation of virginity as a disci- Lehfeldt / Gender, the State, and Episcopal Authority  623 pline requiring constant vigilance: “As long as we are held down by this frail...

... had proposed, or merely human, as Jerome had suggested? And should the Apocrypha be treated with similar reverence? With such questions in mind, it was important to establish when these texts had been written, by whom, and for what purpose. When we examine Bois’s annotations, we can see...

..., the herald of the new Church.”28 As James Kearney has shown, the nature of the representation of language in any depiction of Mat- thew was potentially fraught and indeed explosive. Jerome and subsequently Catholic convention suggested that Matthew — identified with the Jewish tax collector Levi...

... this question in more detail in his Specimen , 150–51, suggesting there that an older form of “Himyaritic” Arabic may have emerged from Hebrew or Syriac. 70 Jerome, Commentariorum in Osee Prophetam libri tres , in Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Latina, vol. 25, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1845), col...

... Educational and Social Contexts 53 mentions of sources appear in the Liber Peregrinationis, there is implicit use of several standard texts, such as those by Augustine and Jerome, and Peter Comestor s Historia Scholastica. Other touchstones include some of the same polemical texts that would later inform his...

...: Psalm 44 begins, “My heart belched forth a good word” [Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum], which St. Jerome glosses thus: Brown / In the Middle 559 JMEMS30.3-07.Brown 9/1/00 5:05 PM Page 560 The belch, literally...

... of the late seventies and eighties: Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Chris- tian Thought , with Herbert Richardson and, in the new edition, with Gary Brower and Randall Styers (Harper and Row, 1977 and rev. 1996); Jerome, Chrysostom, and Friends: Essays and Translations (Edwin Mellen Press...

... explains the latency of the spiritual ideal of attention after the fourth century.19 Jerome and Augustine, two of the most powerful early proponents of monasticism in the West, were particularly influential in this suppression. The issue at stake was whether human acts of devotion would infringe...

... by scholars such as D. C. Greetham, D. F. McKenzie, and Jerome McGann. The fundamental premises of medieval textual scolar­ ship have been actively reconsidered by those who have brought to their labor Paul Zumthor’s philosophy of mouvance, according to which a literary work in the age before...

..., she never refers to the manuscript as a Wycliffite Bible.42 The great variety of materials we classify as Wycliffite bibles makes clear that there was no normative experience for reading Wycliffite trans- lation: audiences may have engaged with pandects accompanied only by Jerome’s...