Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue)

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Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (August 7, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520227573
ISBN-13: 978-0520227576
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

A portrait in depth of the man, and a brilliant study of the period. -- New York Review of Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue)