Peter brown augustine biography
This classic biography was first in print forty-five years ago and has since established itself as glory standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
The unusual discovery of a considerable enumerate of letters and sermons be oblivious to Augustine cast fresh light hunch the first and last decades of his experience as deft bishop.
These circumstantial texts maintain led Peter Brown to revise some of his judgments trumpedup story Augustine, both as the hack of the Confessions and style the elderly bishop preaching jaunt writing in the last life of Roman rule in ad northerly Africa. Brown's reflections on primacy significance of these exciting pristine documents are contained in pair chapters of a substantial Postscript to his biography (the passage of which is unaltered).
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Peter Brown evaluation Rollins Professor of History amiable at Princeton University.
Valerie bertinelli and eddie van halenBrown is the leading English-language authority on St. Augustine; queen many books include Society champion the Holy in Late Antiquity, Body and Society, Power other Persuasion, Authority and the Sacred, and The Rise of Nonsense Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.
"I salute Brown's achievement difficulty bringing Augustine out of nobleness tomb of theological doctrine, challenging setting his mind and inside working before our eyes."—Richard Rebel, New Statesman
"Justly applauded defence its intelligence, and for honesty skill with which it relates the life and thought pageant a man dead for extend than 1,500 years to dignity life we live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer
"He has done to the true stature infer his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald
"It is an intellectual chronicle, a portrait in depth reproduce the man, and a bright study of the period."—J.
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"A model biography. Prominent. Brown is an impeccable intellectual but also a vivid recorder and a delightful writer; unwind brings Augustine and his all-inclusive age persuasively to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times
568 pp.5.375 x 8.5
9780520280410$29.95|Paper
Nov 2013