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The passage profiles several major late antique and medieval Church figures and institutions—Jerome, Augustine, St Denis—linking their authority to scholarly and ecclesiastical life in Abelard’s France.
ST. JEROME The enormous scholarship of St. Jerome, born about 340 and dying September 30, 420, made him not only the foremost authority within the Church itself throughout the Middle Ages, but also one of the chief guides to secular scholarship. Abélard repeatedly quotes from him, particularly from his denunciation of the revival of Gnostic heresies by Jovinianus and from some of his voluminous epistles. He also ref…