A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of
scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to
contextualizing Augustine and his works within the
multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as
both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural
force in his own right.
* Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full
historical context, rather than privileging the theological
context
* Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the
cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and
engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and
place
* Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the
many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman
culture
* State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field
