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Informationen zum Autor Mark Vessey is Professor of English and Principal of Green College at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (2005), and has edited Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2005) and The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (2011). Klappentext Augustine (354-430 CE) stands with Homer, Plato, and Aristotle among the pre-eminent authorities in Western culture, and his Confessions is the only literary work from the early Christian centuries (aside from the New Testament) that is still widely read today. Long recognized as an outstanding Christian theologian, he has in recent decades also acquired a reputation as an exceptional exponent of the culture of the late Roman world, one whose texts vividly bring the era to life. This companion is the first to present Augustine as a historical figure within an expanded world of late antiquity. State-of-the-art essays by leading specialists in this field provide orientation to his material, social, and intellectual milieu; his life and career; his writings; issues of the day with which he was engaged; and the main phases of his latter-day reception and influence. Each chapter pulls together resources for readers who want to anchor historically important Augustinian ideas and impulses in the complex realities of the author's life and afterlife. The result is a multifaceted portrait of Augustine in action in his own and later times. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xii Preface xviii Source Acknowledgments xix Abbreviations xxi The Works of Augustine xxiv Chronology of Augustine's Life xl 1 Introduction 1 Mark Vessey PART I Contexts 9 2 Political History: The Later Roman Empire 11 Christopher Kelly 3 Cultural Geography: Roman North Africa 24 William E. Klingshirn 4 Religious Sociology: Being Christian 40 Eric Rebillard PART II Confessions 55 5 Spes Saeculi : Augustine's Worldly Ambition and Career 57 R. S. O. Tomlin 6 Love and Belonging, Loss and Betrayal in the Confessions 69 Kate Cooper 7 TheConfessions as Autobiography 87 Paula Fredriksen 8 Reading the Confessions 99 Catherine Conybeare PART III Media 111 9 Augustine and Language 113 Philip Burton 10 Augustine's Information Circuits 125 Claire Sotinel 11 Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles 138 Richard Lim 12 Augustine and Books 151 Guy G. Stroumsa PART IV Texts 159 13 Augustine and the Latin Classics 161 Danuta Shanzer 14 Augustine and the Philosophers 175 Sarah Byers 15 Augustine and the Books of the Manicheans 188 Johannes van Oort 16 Augustine and Scripture 200 Michael Cameron 17 Augustine and His Christian Predecessors 215 Mark Edwards 18 Augustine as a Reader of His Christian Contemporaries 227 Michael Stuart Williams 19 Augustine among the Writers of the Church 240 Mark Vessey PART V Performances 255 20 Philosopher: Augustine in Retirement 257 Gillian Clark 21 Conversationalist and Consultant: Augustine in Dialogue 270 Therese Fu...
