The Letters of Jerome

• A ground-breaking literary-historical study on Jerome's letters
• Situates Jerome in the Latin letter-writing tradition and his contemporary milieu
• Re-appraises key phases of Jerome's career, including his expulsion from Rome in 385
• Sheds significant new light on manufactured religious and intellectual authority in late antiquity
• Draws from a broad range of literary, historical, prospographical, legal, and religious sources

Readership: Scholars and Students of the Early Church; of ancient letters

Andrew Cain, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado

"a very fine study that is jam-packed with new and significant insights...An excellent book!" - Neil Adkin. The Journal of Theological Studies

"He was unlikely kind of saint but, goodness, he wrote great letters. Ancient rhetoric had three objectives: to instruct. to entertain and to persuade. Jerome was master of them all, so please read Cain's excellent book and then have a look at the letters themselves." - Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald

Introduction
1: 'The Voice of One Calling in the Desert'
2: A Pope and His Scholar
3: Claiming Marcella
4: Expulsion from Rome
5: The Embattled Ascetic Sage
6: The Exegetical Letters
Conclusion
Appendices
I: Classifying the Letters: A New Taxonomy
II: Lost Letters of Jerome
III: The Manuscript Tradition