Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Augustine

Editor/Author Vessey, Mark
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $219.95
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ISBN: 978-1-4051-5946-3
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count: 19
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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