 | After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text Subjects: Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones; Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo -- Books and reading; Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo -- Influence; Self-knowledge Theory of -- History; Books and reading -- History; The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-- Choice Brian Stock is Professor of History and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. He is author of The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation; and Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
