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Holy Aemulatio : Vita Hilarionis and Jerome’s efforts to outdo the Life of Antony
ID Movrin, David (Author)

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Abstract
The three lives of saints penned by Jerome, Vita Pauli, Vita Malchi, and Vita Hilarionis, were frequently described in the past by one or another variant of Edward Gibbon’s acerbic verdict – that their only defect is »the want of truth and common sense.« Twentieth-century scholarship, less sweeping and perhaps more discerning, pointed out significant differences between the texts. While the Life of Malchus is not even biography and while the subject of Life of Paul seems to have been a figment of Jerome s imagination, the Life of Hilarion is anchored in reality, to the extent that traces of its protagonist can still be found in independent secondary sources such as Sozomenus. However, while its historicity poses intriguing questions of its own, recent decades have become particularly interested in its narrative strategies. Susan Weingarten convincingly showed how Jerome used and subverted a masterpiece of profane literature, namely, Apuleius’ Golden Ass. What inspired such a daring tactic? The approach was partly motivated by the text Jerome was emulating, namely, the Life of Antony itself.

Language:English
Keywords:hagiography, Vita Pauli, Vita Malchi, Vita Hilarionis
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:TEOF - Theological Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2021
Year:2021
Number of pages:Str. 369-378
Numbering:Letn. 81, [št.] 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-163918 This link opens in a new window
UDC:27-36-1sv.Hieronim
ISSN on article:0006-5722
DOI:10.34291/BV2021/02/Movrin This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:87608323 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:14.10.2024
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Title:Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
Shortened title:Bogosl. vestn.
Publisher:Teološka fakulteta
ISSN:0006-5722
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Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Title:Sveto posnemanje : Vita Hilarionis in Hieronimovi napori pri preseganju Antonovega življenjepisa
Abstract:
Trije Hieronimovi svetniški življenjepisi, Vita Pauli, Vita Malchi in Vita Hilarionis, so bili v preteklosti pogosto deležni te ali one različice jedke sodbe iz ust Edwarda Gibbona, ki je mimogrede navrgel, da je njihova edina napaka »pomanjkanje resnice in zdrave pameti«. Raziskovalci 20. stoletja so z manj posploševanja in morda z več razločevanja poudarili, da obstajajo med temi tremi besedili tudi velike razlike. Medtem ko Malhovo življenje sploh ni biografija in se zdi, da je bil protagonist Pavlovega življenja plod Hieronimove domišljije, je Hilarionov življenjepis zasidran v stvarnosti: sledi njegovega protagonista je moč najti v neodvisnih sekundarnih virih, kakršen je Sozomen. Zgodovinskost besedila zastavlja vrsto svojih lastnih vprašanj, zadnja desetletja pa se posebej zanimajo za v njem nakazane narativne strategije. Susan Weingarten je prepričljivo pokazala, kako je Hieronim uporabil in subvertiral mojstrovino profane literature, Apulejevega Zlatega osla. Kaj bi lahko navdihnilo tako drzno taktiko? Zdi se, da je bil pristop deloma motiviran prav z besedilom, ki ga je Hieronim posnemal, z Antonovim življenjepisom.

Keywords:hagiografija, Vita Pauli, Vita Malchi, Vita Hilarionis

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