Circulation of Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi along the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the late middle ages

Ivić, Ines (author)

The Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi was a main devotional work upon which the humanist and the renaissance cult of Saint Jerome was built, testified by a large number of manuscript copies, and printed editions of the work. This paper explores the previously unacknowledged presence of the work in the Eastern Adriatic Coast, especially in the Dalmatian communes, where Jerome has been praised as a national saint since the 15th century. Based on the archival documents, quotations of the Transitus in other written works, and its use as a textual model for the visual representations, it discusses the direct and indirect influence on the promotion of veneration of Jerome. Furthermore, it contributes to the notion of the exchange of ideas and artistic models between two shores of the Adriatic Sea during the Late Middle Ages.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Transitus sancti Hieronymi, Dalmatia, communes, humanism, renaissance
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 125-139
• Numbering: Letn. 75, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163449
• UDC: 2-28(497.58):929sv. Hieronim
• ISSN on article: 2335-4127
• DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/75/Ivic
• COBISS.SI-ID: 34893571
• Publication date in RUL: 07.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Edinost in dialog : revija za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog = Unity and dialogue : journal for ecumenical theology and interreligious dialogue
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Enota v Mariboru in Inštitut Stanka Janežiča za dogmatično, osnovno in ekumensko teologijo ter religiologijo in dialog
• ISSN: 2335-4127
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268194560

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prisotnost Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi vzdolž vzhodne jadranske obale v poznem srednjem veku

Abstract

Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi je bilo glavno pobožno delo, na katerem je bil osnovan humanistični in renesančni kult svetega Hieronima z velikim številom rokopisnih kopij in tiskanih izdaj dela. Ta članek raziskuje prej nepriznano prisotnost dela na vzhodni jadranski obali, zlasti v dalmatinskih skupnostih, kjer je Hieronim že od petnajstega stoletja hvaljen kot narodni svetnik. Na podlagi arhivskih dokumentov, citatov Tranzita v drugih pisnih delih in njegove uporabe kot besedilnega modela za vizualne predstavitve razpravlja o neposrednih in posrednih vplivih na spodbujanje Hieronimovega čaščenja. Poleg tega prispeva k pojmu izmenjave idej in umetniških modelov med obema obalama Jadranskega morja v poznem srednjem veku.

• Keywords: Transitus Sancti Hieronymi, Dalmacija, skupnosti, humanizem, renesansa