Biography

Cutts, Edward L. Saint Jerome. London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., XXXp.

Brief biography of Jerome's life.

Kelly, J. N. D. Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies. New York: Harper & Row, 1975, 353p.

Thorough biography of Jerome's life, with specific attention to his writings.

Sigüenza, Jose de. The Life of Saint Jerome, the Great Doctor of the Church, translated by Mariana Monteiro. London: Sands, 1907, 668p.

Translation of the extensive spiritual biography of 1595 by Father Jose de Sigüenza, a monk in the Order of Saint Jerome and one of the first Castilian classical writers.

Criticism

Adams, Jeremy Duquesnay. The "Populus" of Augustine and Jerome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971, 278p.

Explores the use of the word 'populus' in the Vulgate Bible and in the writings of Augustine and Jerome in order to explore the opinions of patristic and early medieval thinkers regarding humankind and its sub-groups.

Erasmus. Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 61: Patristic Scholarship; the Edition of St. Jerome, edited and translated by James F. Brady and John C. Olin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, 293p.

Contains Erasmus' Life of Jerome as well as se-lections from Jerome's letters with Erasmus's commentaries. An excerpt from the "Dedicatory Letter to Erasmus's Edition of St. Jerome" appears in the above entry.

Hritzu, John Nicholas. The Style of the Letters of St. Jerome. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1939, 121p.

Identifies and catalogues the stylistic devices used in the Letters and the extent to which they reveal the influence of sophistic rhetoricians.

Hughes, L. The Christian Church in the Epistles of St. Jerome. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923, 116p.

Examines Jerome's letters in an attempt to clarify his opinions regarding the clergy, the scriptures, the ascetic and monastic movement, Rome, heresies, and the progress and practice of the Church. Hughes's "Conclusion" is contained in the above entry.

Kelly, M. Jamesetta. Life and Times as Revealed in the Writings of St. Jerome Exclusive of His Letters. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1944, 173p.

Dissects Jerome's writings in order to illuminate the economic and professional, social, public, and religious contexts in which he wrote.

Levy, Harry L. "Claudian's In Rufinum and an Epistle of St. Jerome." American Journal of Philology LXIX (1948): 62-68.

Argues, in agreement with T. Birt's Claudii Claudiani Carmina, that Claudian influenced Jerome's sixtieth epistle, in which he laments the fall of Rome to the barbarians.

Meiss, Millard. "Scholarship and Penitence in the Early Renaissance: The Image of St. Jerome," in The Painter's Choice: Problems in the Interpretation of Renaissance Art, pp. 189-202. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Surveys the ways in which Jerome was represented in early Renaissance painting. Meiss claims that Jerome is portrayed in two very different ways-as ecclesiastical scholar in his study and as a self-bloodied penitent in the wilderness-and concludes that these "symbolized perfectly the diverse values of the Renaissance humanists."

Murphy, Francis X., ed. A Monument to Saint Jerome: Essays on Some Aspects of His Life, Works and Influence. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952, 295p.

Collection of biographical, historical, and critical essays on Jerome and his work.

O'Connell, John P. The Eschatology of Saint Jerome. Mundelein, Ill.: Seminarii Sanctae Mariae Ad Lacum, 1948, l99p.

Explores Jerome's doctrines regarding death and the afterlife.

Oldfather, William Abbott, ed. Studies in the Text Tradition of St. Jerome's "Vitae Patrum." Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1943, 566p.

Extensively outlines the manuscript transmission of Jerome's three Vitae-in the Latin original, in Greek, and in versions derived from the Greek.

Olin, John C. "Erasmus and Saint Jerome: The Close Bond and Its Significance." Erasmus of Rotterdam Yearbook 7 (1987): 33-53.

Examines the importance of Jerome in the work of Erasmus, particularly his attempts "to reform theology by returning it to its scriptural and patristic sources."

Pease, Arthur Stanley. "Notes on St. Jerome's Tractates on the Psalms." Journal of Biblical Literature XXVI, Pt. 2 (1907): 107-31.

Examines the structure of Jerome's three studies of the Psalms in an attempt to show the Breviarium in Psalmos to be part of a lost work by Jerome.

Semple, W. H. "St. Jerome as a Biblical Translator." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library XLVIII (1965-66): 227-43.

Studies the Latin prefaces of Jerome's translation of the Old Testament in an effort to elucidate his critical method and explore his replies to Augustine's criticisms.

Wiesen, David S. St. Jerome as a Satirist: A Study in Christian Latin Thought and Letters. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964, 290p.

Positions Jerome in the satiric tradition through his writings on politics, culture, and religion.