Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Augustine
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Augustine
Editor/Author
Vessey, Mark
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
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$219.95

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$329.92
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5946-3
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count:
19
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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