A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Source Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• The Works of Augustine
• Chronology of Augustine's Life
• Introduction- Mark Vessey
• Contexts
• 2 Political History - Christopher Kelly
• 3 Cultural Geography - William E. Klingshirn
• 4 Religiosus Sociology - Éric Rebillard
• Confessions
• 5 Spes Saeculi: Augustine's Worldly Ambition and Career - R. S. O. Tomlin
• 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions - Kate Cooper
• 7 TheConfessions as Autobiography - Paula Fredriksen
• 8 Reading the Confessions - Catherine Conybeare
• Media
• 9 Augustine and Language - Philip Burton
• 10 Augustine's Information Circuits - Claire Sotinel
• 11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles - Richard Lim
• 12 Augustine and Books - Guy G. Stroumsa
• Texts
• 13 Augustine and the Latin Classics - Danuta Shanzer
• 14 Augustine and the Philosophers - Sarah Byers
• 15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans - Johannes van Oort
• 16 Augustine and Scripture - Michael Cameron
• 17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors - Mark Edwards
• 18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries - Michael Stuart Williams
• 19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church - Mark Vessey
• Performances
• 20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement - Gillian Clark
• 21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue - Therese Fuhrer
• 22 Mystic and Monk: Augustine and the Spiritual Life - John Peter Kenney
• 23 Preacher: Augustine and His Congregation - Hildegund Müuller
• 24 Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese - Neil B. McLynn
• 25 Controversialist: Augustine in Combat - Caroline Humfress
• Positions
• 26 Augustine on the Will - James Wetzel
• 27 Augustine on the Body - David G. Hunter
• 28 Augustine on Friendship and Orthodoxy - Stefan Rebenich
• 29 Augustine on the Church (Against the Donatists) - Alexander Evers
• 30 Augustine on the Statesman and the Two Cities - Robert Dodaro
• 31 Augustine on Scripture and the Trinity - Sabine MacCormack
• 32 Augustine on Redemption - Lewis Ayres
• Aftertimes
• 33 Augustine's Works in Circulation - Clemens Weidmann
• 34 Augustine in the Latin West, 430-ca. 900 - Conrad Leyser
• 35 Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation - Eric L. Saak
• 36 The Reception of Augustine in Modern Philosophy - Johannes Brachtendorf
• 37 Augustine and Postmodernism - John D. Caputo
• 38 Envoi - James J. O'Donnell
• References