Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts

Mark Vessey is Associate Professor and has the Canada Research Chair in Literature/Christianity and Culture in the Department of English at University of British Columbia, Canada.

• Contents: Preface. Preliminary: A New Order of Books: The Epistula Rustici ad Eucherium: from the library of imperial classics to the library of the fathers. Literary Histories: Patristics and literary history: reflections on the programme of a new history of late antique Latin literature; Literacy and litteratura, A.D. 200-800. Jerome, Augustine and Readers: Jerome's Origen: the making of a Christian literary persona; Conference and confession: literary pragmatics in Augustine's 'Apologia contra Hieronymum'; The Augustinian reader; Opus imperfectum: Augustine and his readers, 426-435 A.D. Later Latin Textualities: Orthodoxy, 'Literature', Law: The forging of orthodoxy in Latin Christian literature: a case study; Peregrinus against the heretics: classicism, provinciality, and the place of the alien writer in late Roman Gaul; The origins of the Collectio Sirmondiana: a new look at the evidence. Scribes and Scholars: Between Patristics and Late Antiquity: 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); Erasmus' Jerome: the publishing of a Christian author; After the Maurists: the Oxford correspondence of Dom Germain Morin, OSB. Addenda and corrigenda; Index.

’Le lecteur termine la lecture de cet ouvrage avec gratitude, spécialement pour la richesse des interprétations, des résultats, des perspectives et des invitations à la réflexion.’ Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique