A Companion to Augustine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781119025559)

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

Author: Mark Vessey
ISBN-10: 1119025559
ISBN-13: 9781119025559
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2015
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.20d