IMC 2012: Sessions

Session 1508: Reading Jerome: Theological Polemic, Literary Reception, and Legal History

Sponsor:	Platinum Latin
Organiser:	Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paper 1508-a	Recovering Vigilantius from the Writings of Jerome (Language: English) Amy Oh, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1508-b	A Corpus of Tongues: Jerome's Use of the 'Many Mouths' Motif (Language: English) Angela Zielinski Kinney, Dumbarton Oaks / Department of the Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1508-c	Contextualizing Jerome, Ep. 1 and the Problem of Ordeal-by-Execution (Language: English) Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Social History
Abstract	This session will examine three different topics in works of Jerome. How to extract a demonized opponent from a satirical polemic, the Contra Vigilantium, how Jerome uses the classical motif of 'many mouths' and other Vergilian allusions for both literary and exegetical purposes, and how we can use Jerome to recover some of the prehistory of ordeal-by-execution.