Augustine in context / edited by Tarmo Toom.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: 265 p. ; 24 cmContent type: - 9781107139107 (alk. paper)
- 270.2092
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Augustine in context and Augustine on context/ Tarmo Toom -- 2. Biography in Late Antiquity/ Arthur P. Urbano -- 3. Augustine on himself/ Annemare Kotze -- 4. Possidius on Augustine/ Erika T. Hermanowicz -- 5. Augustine in Roman north Africa (Thagaste, Carthage)/ Gareth Sears -- 6. Augustine in higher society (Rome and Milan)/ David M. Gwynn -- 7. Augustine as a Bishop (Hippo)/ Andrea Sterk -- 8. Language/ James Clackson -- 9. Classical Literary Culture in north Africa/ W. Martin Bloomer -- 10. Education, grammar, rhetoric/ Yun Lee Too -- 11. Scripture and Biblical commentaries/ Stephen A. Cooper -- 12. Latin Christian literature I (Polemical and Theological writings)/ Josef Lossle -- 13. Latin Christian literature II (Moral and Spiritual writings)/ David G. Hunter -- 14. Letter writing and preaching/ Jaclyn Maxwell -- 15. Philosophical trends in Augustine's time/ Giovanni Catapano -- 16. Roman Religion/ Jeffrey Brodd -- 17. Manicheism/ Nicholas Baker-Brian -- 18. Ecclesiological controversies/ Alden Bass -- 19. Soteriological controversies/ Dominic Keech -- 20. Trinitarian controversies/ Mark Weedman -- 21. Monasticism/ Ascetism/ Marilyn Dunn -- 22. Imperial politics and legislation in Roman Africa/ Dean Hammer -- 23. War/ Alexander Sarantis -- 24. Religious violence/ Despina Iosif -- 25. Relationships in Augustine's life/ Geoffrey Nathan -- 26. Popular culture and entertainment/ Jerry Toner -- 27. Augustine's reception of himself/ Johannes Brachtendorf -- 28. Reception of Augustine during his lifetime/ Mathijs Lamberigts -- 29. Reception of Augustin in Hadrumentum and southern Gaul/ Alexander Y. Hwang.
"Augustine in Context assesses the various contexts - historical, literary, cultural, and spiritual - in which Augustine lived and worked. The essays, written by an international team of scholars especially for this volume, provide the background against which Augustine's treatises should be read and interpreted. They are organized according to a rationale that moves from an introduction to the person (the so-called personal context) to the contexts of Augustine's works and ideas, starting from the intellectual setting and extending to the sociopolitical realm. Collectively the essays highlight the embeddedness of Augustine in the world of late antiquity and the interdependence of his discourse with contemporary forms of social life. They shed new light on one of the most important figures of the western canon and facilitate a more enlightened reading of his writings." -- Publisher's description.