Shadows of Poetry - Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

Informationen zum Autor Sabine G. MacCormack is Professor of History at the University of Michigan! Ann Arbor. Klappentext Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals! funerals! and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D.! as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social! political! and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman world. Zusammenfassung Captures the intellectual and religious encounter between Augustine and Vergil. The text seeks to open a door not merely on the content and formation of Augustine's ideas, but also on the meaning of Vergil's poetry at a time of political and religious change.

Product details

• Authors: Sabine MacCormack, MacCormack Sabine
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1998
• EAN: 9780520211872
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21187-2
• No. of pages: 273
• Series: Transformation of the Classica; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; Transformation of the Classica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; POETRY / General, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval