{"title":"Fondation et transmission dans la Vita Pauli et la Vita Hilarionis","authors":"Florence Bret","doi":"10.34291/bv2021/02/bret","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Paul and Anthony, Anthony and Hilarion, Hilarion and Hesychius /.../, the mentor-disciple relationships punctuate Jerome’s Vita Pauli and Vita Hilarionis, and forge an almost genetic continuity between a founder and his successors. This article will ask how these inheritance relationships reflect Jerome’s intentions in the ascetic and literary fields. These two Lives of monks make sure to place their hero in a monastic line that goes back to the origins. The Vita Pauli says almost nothing about the ascetic’s life and focuses on his encounter with Anthony, who becomes his heir in all thanks to biblical parallels. Hilarion, for his part, begins his monastic life by meeting a mentor and ends it with an act of transmission to one of his disciples. Each time, the ascetic garment, the most immediately visible sign of the monastic ideal given by a monk to his disciples, becomes a symbolic representation of this spiritual lineage. Consequently, this emphasis on transmission can be read as a doubling of the Vitae’s exemplary aim, the reader becoming the disciple of the mentor the saint is for him. However, this motif also becomes for Jerome a way to define his place in the literary hagiographic tradition: both a rival imitator of the Vita Antonii and the first Latin author of Lives of ascetics aspiring to create emulators.","PeriodicalId":45019,"journal":{"name":"Bogoslovni Vestnik-Theological Quarterly-Ephemerides Theologicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bogoslovni Vestnik-Theological Quarterly-Ephemerides Theologicae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.34291/bv2021/02/bret","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Paul and Anthony, Anthony and Hilarion, Hilarion and Hesychius /.../, the mentor-disciple relationships punctuate Jerome’s Vita Pauli and Vita Hilarionis, and forge an almost genetic continuity between a founder and his successors. This article will ask how these inheritance relationships reflect Jerome’s intentions in the ascetic and literary fields. These two Lives of monks make sure to place their hero in a monastic line that goes back to the origins. The Vita Pauli says almost nothing about the ascetic’s life and focuses on his encounter with Anthony, who becomes his heir in all thanks to biblical parallels. Hilarion, for his part, begins his monastic life by meeting a mentor and ends it with an act of transmission to one of his disciples. Each time, the ascetic garment, the most immediately visible sign of the monastic ideal given by a monk to his disciples, becomes a symbolic representation of this spiritual lineage. Consequently, this emphasis on transmission can be read as a doubling of the Vitae’s exemplary aim, the reader becoming the disciple of the mentor the saint is for him. However, this motif also becomes for Jerome a way to define his place in the literary hagiographic tradition: both a rival imitator of the Vita Antonii and the first Latin author of Lives of ascetics aspiring to create emulators.