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Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception: 58
Author(s): Karla Pollmann (Contributor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 11 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 388 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004222138
- ISBN-13: 9789004222137
Book Description
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine’s impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The included studies trace intricate and occasionally surprising instances of Augustine’s ubiquitous presence in intellectual, spiritual and artistic terms. The result is a far more differentiated and dynamic picture of the mechanisms by which the legacy of an historical figure may be perpetuated, including the sometimes supra-rational and imaginative dimensions of transmission.
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About the Author
Karla Pollmann, Ph.D. (1990) in Classics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is Professor of Classics at St Andrews University. She has published extensively in the fields of literature and culture of the Roman Empire, including a commentary on Statius, Thebaid 12 (Schöningh, 2004), and a co-edited volume on Poetry and Exegesis (Brill, 2007).
Meredith J. Gill, Ph.D. (1992) in Art History, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Maryland. She has published in the areas of cross-cultural patronage and the arts and spirituality, including Augustine in the Italian Renaissance (CUP, 2005).
