A Companion to Augustine [Hardcover]

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

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 11
Christopher Kelly

3 Cultural Geography 24
William E. Klingshirn

4 Religious Sociology 40
Éric 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