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Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43763 Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis Kritzinger, J.P.K. Prinsloo, G.T.M. (Gert Thomas Marthinus) Nel, Magderie Ancient Cultural History Jerome Asceticism Desert space Hagiography UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria 2015. This dissertation explores Jerome’s use of space in the Vita Hilarionis, through the use of the theory of critical spatiality. Three different spaces, all interrelated, are explored: desert space, monastic space and city space. The vita falls within the genre of Hagiography, a short biography that attempts to capture the life of a saint or holy man or woman. The Vita Hilarionis centres around the saint Hilarion, and follows his journey into the desert of Palestine in his goal to become an ascetic. One of Jerome’s goals with the writing of the vita is to show that Hilarion was the originator of monasticism in Palestine. Upon closer inspection of the spaces that Jerome describes to us, his greater ideological goal can also be exposed. Jerome, a Christian with a classical Roman education, makes use of older classical models in order to write his social geography of the late ancient Mediterranean world, such as traditional notions of centre and periphery. However, as theologian, he also reconstructs or re-imagines Roman spaces, such as the circus, to propagate Christianity, the new religion for the old world. Critical space has not yet fully been applied to text in late antiquity (100 – 600 CE) or early Christianity. This approach is steered by insights from social scientific criticism that not only views a text such as the vita as a literary piece of fiction, but also as a social product of its time. Through this view, largely spiritual themes in the vita can be viewed as also ideologically motivated, the social position and role of the ascetic in late Roman/ early Christian society understood, the spaces he/she moves in analysed and applied to shed light on early Christian identities. Ancient Languages Unrestricted 2015-02-23T10:10:21Z 2015-02-23T10:10:21Z 2015-04 2015 Dissertation Nel, M 2015, Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43763> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43763 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Ancient Cultural History Jerome Asceticism Desert space Hagiography UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title | Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title_full | Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title_fullStr | Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title_short | Space in Saint Jerome's Vita Hilarionis |
| title_sort | space in saint jerome s vita hilarionis |
| topic | Ancient Cultural History Jerome Asceticism Desert space Hagiography UCTD Humanities theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43763 |