Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception (Brill’s Series in Church History, Volume 6)

By Karla Pollmann, Meredith J. Gill

Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the main influential philosopher and Latin writer of the Early Christian interval. His frequent legacy has been explored up to now purely partially, and mostly with recognize to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary quantity makes an attempt to redress this emphasis with a collection of analyses of Augustine's impression within the visible arts, drama, devotional practices, tune, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The integrated stories hint problematic and sometimes spectacular circumstances of Augustine's ubiquitous presence in highbrow, religious and creative phrases. the result's a much more differentiated and dynamic photo of the mechanisms wherein the legacy of an old determine will be perpetuated, together with the occasionally supra-rational and inventive dimensions of transmission.

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277: “In lib. de Confess. de illa sapientia dicit: Infelix autem ille homo qui scit omnia hæc, te autem nescit; beatus autem qui te scit etiamsi illam nesciat. Qui vero te et illam novit, non propter illam beatior est, sed propter te beatus solum. ” 8 Jacopo da Varazze, ‘Sermo 1’ (see above, n. 5), p. 278: “Augustinus habet dulcissimam suavitatem; ideo comparatur cibo dulcissimo, unde Gregorius ubi supra: Si delitioso cupitis 134 carolyn muessig Augustine’s candy authority will not be permit the hearer fail to remember that he used to be seen additionally as a forceful protector of orthodox suggestion. Jacopo demonstrates this in his quotation of Bernard of Clairvaux’s ‘Sermon eighty’ at the tune of Songs, the place it's written: “Augustine is the most powerful hammer opposed to the heretics. ”9 In every one sermon Jacopo offers a spotlight on a specific element of the bigger tableau of Augustine’s lifestyles. within the first sermon, Jacopo establishes that Augustine has earned his authority in his preaching via his ideal conversion: “The sermons of blessed Augustine are natural for the reason that they include no falseness; they're even purer simply because they comprise doubtless; they're the purest simply because they include each fact. ”10 The subject matter for Jacopo’s moment sermon is Proverbs 25,4: “Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a so much natural vessel. ”11 This sermon is devoted to Augustine’s conversion from heresy, philosophical self-importance, and carnal wish. The passages of the Confessions during this sermon allude to Augustine’s conversion of the guts; the following the topic of Augustine as penitent emerges whilst Jacopo discusses how Augustine’s tears of contrition flowed whilst he threw himself below a tree and wept in the course of his apprehensive conversion to Christianity. Augustine’s flood of tears and his groans of the sour contrition of his center are defined as an supplying to God. 12 pabulo saginari, beati Augustini opuscula legite. ” The Gregory the good quote additionally appears to be like within the Golden Legend. The quote originated in Gregory’s letter to a prefect of Africa. See PL 77:1095A, De Innocentii praefectura gaudet ex dilectione; ‘Epistola XXXVII advert Innocentium Africae Praefectum. ’ Translation from Jacopo da Varazze, ‘Saint Augustine,’ within the Golden Legend: Readings at the Saints, trans. William Granger Ryan, 2 vols. (Princeton, N. J. , 1993), 2:116–32, there 127. 9 Jacopo da Varazze, ‘Sermo 1’ (see above, n. 5), p. 278: “Augustinus hic est validissimus malleus hæreticorum. ” See Bernard of Clairvaux, Homiliae large Canticum Canticorum eighty. 7, in Opera omnia, ed. Jean Leclercq, Charles H. Talbot, and Henri M. Rochais, vol. 2 (Rome, 1958), p. 282. In Bernard’s sermon he hired this time period in connection with Augustine’s therapy of the Arians. 10 Jacopo da Varazze, ‘Sermo 1’ (see above, n. 5), p. 278: “Sermones namque beati Augustini sunt puri, quia nullam habent falsitatem, sunt puriores, quia non habent dubietatem; sunt purissimi, quia omnem continent veritatem. ” 11 Jacopo da Varazze, ‘Sermo 2’ (see above, n. 5), p. 278: “Aufer rubiginem de argento, et egredietur vas purissimum.

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