Agustín de Hipona / Augustine of Hippo

Publicada por primera vez hace m嫳 de medio siglo, esta biograf燰 se ha consolidado como el relato de referencia sobre la vida y las ense鎙nzas de San Agust璯. Es, a su vez, uno de los trabajos m嫳 significativos del gran investigador de la Antigdad tard燰 Peter Brown, cuya influencia ha marcado a varias generaciones de historiadores.

Si la edici鏮 de 1967 de Agust璯 de Hipona supuso un acontecimiento, el descubrimiento de nuevas cartas y sermones in嶮itosentre los a隳s setenta y noventa hicieron de la reedici鏮 de 1999, que aqu?recuperamos, un ejemplo fascinante de c鏔o el paso de los a隳s afecta (o no) el trabajo historiogr塻ico. Una pasi鏮 tanto personal como acad幦ica impregnan este aclamado retrato del obispo de Hipona, que hoy adquiere una nueva dimensi鏮 debido a su elecci鏮 como gu燰 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璯, Le鏮 XIV, en la Iglesia cat鏊ica.

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.