Vessey, Mark
A Companion to Augustine
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.
- Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context
- Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place
- Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture
- State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field
Keywords: Ancient & Classical Studies, Confessions, Christian, Roman, theology, Late Antiquity, Philosophy, church, religion
- Author(s)
- Vessey, Mark
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
- Page amount
- 640 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118255438
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405159463