A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection ofscholarship by leading academics with a new approach tocontextualizing Augustine and his works within themulti-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine asboth a product of the cultural forces of his times and a culturalforce in his own right.
* Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their fullhistorical context, rather than privileging the theologicalcontext
* Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in thecultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant andengaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time andplace
* Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to themany and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Romanculture
* State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field