Augustine: Conversions to Confessions

from stillatim

I was rather misled on this one: it's not so much a biography as a close reading of the Confessions, combined with some very nicely done, extremely fine-grained history. It isn't, though, all that much fun; the narrative bogs down in the detail; the comparisons between Augie and two other late-an...

from meandmybooks

An excellent supplement to Peter Brown's "Augustine of Hippo," focusing more narrowly than Brown's book on the period of Augustine's "conversions," from approximately 372, when he "became fired with the love of 'wisdom' on encountering Cicero's Hortensius to his final conversion (according to Fox...

from meandmybooks

An excellent supplement to Peter Brown's "Augustine of Hippo," focusing more narrowly than Brown's book on the period of Augustine's "conversions," from approximately 372, when he "became fired with the love of 'wisdom' on encountering Cicero's Hortensius to his final conversion (according to Fox...