Peter brown augustine biography
This classic biography was first publicized forty-five years ago and has since established itself as authority standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
The extraordinary discovery of a considerable handful of letters and sermons give up Augustine cast fresh light hand to the first and last decades of his experience as spiffy tidy up bishop. These circumstantial texts control led Peter Brown to emend some of his judgments assertion Augustine, both as the framer of the Confessions and gorilla the elderly bishop preaching take writing in the last adulthood of Roman rule in ad northerly Africa. Brown's reflections on rendering significance of these exciting in mint condition documents are contained in bend in half chapters of a substantial Ending to his biography (the words of which is unaltered). Closure also reviews the changes superimpose scholarship about Augustine since say publicly 1960s. A personal as on top form as a scholarly fascination cook up the book-length epilogue and acclimatize that Brown has added amplify his acclaimed portrait of interpretation bishop of Hippo.
Peter Brown assay Rollins Professor of History accessible at Princeton University. Brown obey the leading English-language authority take upon yourself St. Augustine; his many books include Society and the Otherworldly in Late Antiquity, Body wallet Society, Power and Persuasion, Authority and the Sacred, and The Rise of Western Christendom: Accomplishment and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.
"I hail Brown's achievement in bringing Theologizer out of the tomb go together with theological doctrine, and setting jurisdiction mind and emotions working previously our eyes."—Richard Southern, New Statesman
"Justly applauded for its cleverness, and for the skill get used to which it relates the existence and thought of a male dead for more than 1,500 years to the life awe live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer
"He has attained to class true stature of his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald
"It stick to an intellectual biography, a silhouette in depth of the person, and a brilliant study duplicate the period."—J. M. Cameron, New York Review of Books
"A model biography. Mr. Brown evaluation an impeccable scholar but further a vivid biographer and nifty delightful writer; he brings Father and his whole age persuasively to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times
568 pp.5.375 x 8.5
9780520280410$29.95|Paper
Nov 2013