Seeks to delineate a histographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field the volume is organised in three sections by authors, forms of discourse and disciplines.[...]

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 [...]