Images Re-Vues (Nov 2020)
L'image du fondateur : saint Jérôme dans la Historia de la Orden de San Jerónimo de José de Sigüenza (1600-1605), entre modèle spéculaire et ferment de réforme
Abstract
This study deals with the connection between the Order of Saint Jerome, born during the fourteenth century in Castilla, and its remote patron saint, Jerome, a Doctor of the Church who died in 419. Due to the temporal distance between the order and its patron, this link originates in a construction produced both by the Hieronymite iconography and historiography. This process goes towards making Jerome a specular model used to reinforce the identity of the Spanish order, yet it also prompts the monks to more observance, as can be seen in the catalysts of the reform permeating the Historia de la Orden de San Jerónimo (1600-1605) written by Hieronymite fray José de Sigüenza (1544-1606).
