Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan by Boucheron, Patrick

Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635420067)

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Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan by Boucheron, Patrick

Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan

$38.00
Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan by Boucheron, Patrick

Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan

$38.00
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the foremost medievalists of our time, a groundbreaking work on history and memory that goes well beyond the life of this influential saint.

Elected bishop of Milan by popular acclaim in 374, Ambrose went on to become one of the four original Doctors of the Church. There is much more to this book, however, than the captivating story of the bishop who baptized Saint Augustine in the fourth century. Trace and Aura investigates how a crucial figure from the past can return in different guises over and over again, in a city that he inspired and shaped through his beliefs and political convictions. His recurring lives actually span more than ten centuries, from the fourth to the sixteenth.

In the process of following Ambrose's various reincarnations, Patrick Boucheron draws compelling connections between religion, government, tyranny, the Italian commune, Milan's yearning for autonomy, and many other aspects of this fascinating relationship between a city and its spiritual mentor who strangely seems to resist being manipulated by the needs and ambitions of those in power.

Author: Patrick Boucheron
ISBN-10: 1635420067
ISBN-13: 9781635420067
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022
By Patrick Boucheron
By Patrick Boucheron
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Patrick Boucheron is a renowned French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the ﾉcole normale sup駻ieure and the University of Paris, and is currently a professor of history at the Coll鑒e de France. He is the author of twelve books, including Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear, and the editor of five, including France in the World, which became a bestseller in France.

Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She is the recipient of two PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and a French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. She lives in Washington, DC.

Willard Wood grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galanti鑽e Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

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