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Table of contents :
Saint Jerome in the Renaissance
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface & Acknowledgments
1 The Historical Jerome
2 From History to Legend
3 The Cult
4 Divus litterarum princeps
5 Hieronymus redivivus: Erasmus and St. Jerome
6 Between Protestants and Catholics
7 The Translator of the Vulgate Bible: A Sixteenth-Century Controversy
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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