Agustín de Hipona / Augustine of Hippo

La historia de un pensador indispensable para entender la Antig edad tard a. Publicada por primera vez hace m s de medio siglo, esta biograf a se ha consolidado como el relato de referencia sobre la vida y las ense anzas de San Agust n. Es, a su vez, uno de los trabajos m s significativos del gran investigador de la Antig edad tard a Peter Brown, cuya influencia ha marcado a varias generaciones de historiadores.

Si la edici n de 1967 de Agust n de Hipona supuso un acontecimiento, el descubrimiento de nuevas cartas y sermones in ditosentre los a os setenta y noventa hicieron de la reedici n de 1999, que aqu recuperamos, un ejemplo fascinante de c mo el paso de los a os afecta (o no) el trabajo historiogr fico. Una pasi n tanto personal como acad mica impregnan este aclamado retrato del obispo de Hipona, que hoy adquiere una nueva dimensi n debido a su elecci n como gu a espiritual por parte de la nueva derecha internacional liderada por Donald Trump, y tras el nombramiento del primer papa de la Orden de San Agust n, Le n XIV, en la Iglesia cat lica.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa.

Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.