Augustine in His Own Words
450 Further Reading
Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200–1000. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. DiBerardino, Angelo, ed. Encyclopedia of the Early Church. 2 vol. Trans. Adrian Walford. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Drobner, Hubertus. The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction. Trans.
Siegfried Schatzmann; bibliographies for the English edition, William Harmless, SJ, and Hubertus Drobner. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2007. Ferguson, Everett, Michael P. McHugh, and Frederick W. Norris, eds. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, and David G. Hunter, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Early
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Late Antiquity: History and Social World
Just as it is important to situate Augustine's life and thought within the history and theology of early Christianity, so it is important to situate him within the history and social world of Late Antiquity. Brown's and Lancel's biographies do this in very helpful ways. Still, readers may find it helpful to see things in a broader context. Listed below are a mix of surveys and specialized studies: Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Bowersock, G. W., Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar, eds. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1999. Cameron, Averil, and Peter Garnsey, eds. The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425. Cambridge
Ancient History, vol. 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Clark, Gillian. Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Dominik, William, and John Hall, eds. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Blackwell
Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Elsner, J. R. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100–
450. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Finn, Richard, ed. Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire: Christian Promotion and Practice (313–450). Oxford Classical Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery in Early Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hadot, Pierre. What Is Ancient Philosophy? Trans. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Haines-Eitzen, Kim. Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early
Christian Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Harrison, Stephen, ed. A Companion to Latin Literature. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Hunt, E. D. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire, AD 312–460. Oxford: Clarendon Press/New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Jones, A. H. M. The Later Roman Empire, 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative
Survey. 2 vols. 1964; reprint: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1978. Kaster, R. A. Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Kelly, Christopher. Ruling the Later Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Lenski, Noel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Lepelley, Claude. Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire. 2 vols. Collection des
Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 80–81. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1979–1981. Long, A. A. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Marrou, Henri I. A History of Education in Antiquity. Trans. George Lamb. 1956; reprint: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Monceaux, Pierre. Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne. 7 vols. Paris: Leroux, 1901– 1923. Rüpke, Jörg, ed. A Companion to Roman Religion. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Salzman, Michele Renee. The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious
Change in the Western Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Swain, Simon, and Mark Edwards, eds. Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to Late Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Veyne, Paul, ed. The History of Private Life, Vol. 1: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Chapter 1
Confessions: Studies
The major biographies of Augustine do a fine job of guiding readers through the story recorded in Confessions, both setting episodes within the context of late antiquity and of North African Christianity and adding critical perspectives to Augustine's selfpresentation: see Brown, Augustine of Hippo (pp. 7–124 and 151–75); Lancel, Saint Augustine (pp. 3–120); and Bonner, St. Augustine (pp. 36–103). For an introduction to the literary character of the text, see Gillian Clark, Saint Augustine: The Confessions, Landmarks of World Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For a detailed paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, see J. J. O'Donnell, Augustine: Confessions, 3 volumes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991); O'Donnell presumes readers have command of Latin. Also valuable is the introduction and commentary by Aimé Solignac in the French edition of Confessions, BA 13–14, rev. ed. (Paris: Desclée de Bou-