ABSTRACT
Modern research on Jerome emerged from traditions that were not, or at least not primarily, concerned with the study of history but the generation and preservation of memory. One set of events which we might consider as such a case of cultural memory is "The Reformation", the religious and cultural revolution which, as a dominant narrative would have it, initiated the process that ultimately led to the birth of the "modern world". One, if not the, key figure of this Reformation is Martin Luther. Luther deeply appreciated and admired Jerome's Hebrew scholarship, which did not prevent him from correcting the "doctor" when he deemed it necessary. He also benefitted in a wider sense from Jerome's Biblical scholarship. In contrast, more recent scholarship has unearthed a very different memory of Jerome during the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, dynamic and forward looking, characterized by spiritual and cultural renewal.
