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Research paper thumbnail of Knowing One’s Place:Eschatological Thought in Augustine

Research paper thumbnail of Poetry and suffering: Metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum

Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity, 2007

Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletia... more Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletian a whole army of Christian soldiers from the Egyptian Thebais, under their leader Mauritius, was killed at Acaunum in the Swiss Alps. The soldiers died as martyrs because they refused to obey the emperor's order to fight against fellow-Christians. This brief prose narrative had a textual transmission and manifested its influence both in places of worship and an iconographic tradition up to the late Middle Ages. A further aspect of the Passio's reception manifests itself in various versifications of this story that have so far attracted any attention and is the topic of this investigation. The poetic paraphrases of Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux are analysed. The most important changes in these paraphrases in comparison with their prose hypotext are further highlighted. Keywords: Christian; Egyptian Thebais; Eucherius; Passio Acaunensium Martyrum ; Sigebert of Gembloux; Venantius Fortunatus; Walafrid Strabo

Research paper thumbnail of To write by advancing in knowledge and to advance by writing

Augustinian Studies, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Tradition and Innovation

The Baptized Muse, 2017

This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new ... more This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new forms and concepts. This chimes with the modern definition of literary genres as open systems with fluid boundaries, consisting of a set of characteristics which can overlap; thus, one work can potentially be classified under more than just one literary genre. The principles advocated in modern literary theory, especially ‘family resemblance’ and participation instead of essentialism, are useful to accommodate historical changes of a literary genre, as well as the formation of hybrid genres for which both the Hellenistic Age and Late Antiquity are famous. The chapter concludes that the cultural transfer achieved by early Christian writers is as much about remembering as about forgetting the past in order to free capacity for a new world-view.

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions. Edited by Karla Pollmann and Mark Vessey

Research paper thumbnail of Non est masculus et femina – Gal 3,28 in Kommentarauslegungen des 4./5. und des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein nicht eingelöstes Vermächtnis?

English title: Spiritus et Littera: Contributions to Augustine research. Festschrift for the 80th... more English title: Spiritus et Littera: Contributions to Augustine research. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Cornelius Petrus Mayer OSA

Research paper thumbnail of Augustinus, Christliche Bildung (Stuttgart 2002, 2nd edition, 2013)

Research paper thumbnail of The Transformation of the Epic Genre in Late Antiquity

Research paper thumbnail of The Universality of Augustine’s Hermeneutics

Research paper thumbnail of Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries

A Companion to Late Antiquity

This Augustinian interpretation of God's commandment in Genesis 1: 28, ''increase ... more This Augustinian interpretation of God's commandment in Genesis 1: 28, ''increase and multiply,'' as referring to the possibility of multiple interpretation (''exegesis'') of the biblical text (O'Donnell 1992: 400–1; Müller 1998: 616, 625, 648), is remark-able in at least two ways. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Wann ist der Mensch ein Mensch? Anthropologie und Kulturentstehung in spätantiken Autoren

Aspekte spätantiker Anthropologie

wird in dieser Abhandlung nicht eigens behandelt. Generell kann man sagen, dass christliche Autor... more wird in dieser Abhandlung nicht eigens behandelt. Generell kann man sagen, dass christliche Autoren in dieser Hinsicht zumeist eine Chance versäumt haben; siehe den Beitrag von Clark oben S. 159-180. 4 Im Jahr 2004 wurde in den Kinos ein Film mit dem Titel "Genesis" gespielt, dessen Untertitel lautete "Woher kommen wir?". Basilius reflektiert in seiner Predigt zum Sechstagewerk darüber, indem er die Bedeutung von arche in Gen 1, 1 nicht als ,Zeitteil', sondern als .Prinzip der Ordnung und des Zwecks' festlegt und damit vom Simultanakt der Schöpfung ausgeht (alles war vom ersten Augenblick der Schöpfung an vorhanden), was theologische Ursachen hat; cf. Bas. hex. 1, 6. Für einen Überblick über pagane Kulturtheorien cf. Müller. 5 Der im Folgenden als im Wesentlichen agrarisch-vegetarisch eingegrenzt wird, da die Pflanzen als Nahrung für Mensch und Tier definiert werden (Gen 1, 29-30). 6 Cf. Thraede 1192-1194 und passim für einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Entwicklung dieses Konzeptes von der Antike zur Spätantike.

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine beyond the Book

Augustine beyond the Book, 2012

The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall, and Vindication of Augustine 1. Sche... more The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall, and Vindication of Augustine 1. Scheme of a zonal map with the five zones and their habitability status. The Northern temperate zone shows the three known continents up to the fifteenth century (A). Scheme of a TO map showing the arrangement of the three continents of the ancient/medieval "oikoumene-island" (B). Note the different orientations in each map.

Research paper thumbnail of Saint Augustine of Hippo. An intellectual biography. By Miles Hollingworth. Pp. xix + 312. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £20. 978 14411 737 20

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2014

and, second, to demonstrate his originality by which a ‘genuinely plotinian spiritual language is... more and, second, to demonstrate his originality by which a ‘genuinely plotinian spiritual language is put to the use of a distinctively incarnational model of knowledge of God’ (p. , cf. p. ). Hochschild is particularly to be applauded for her recognition that Augustine’s thought can never be fully explained by one predecessor alone (pp. , , cf. pp. f.). Part II (pp. –) is dedicated to Augustine’s earlier works, from the Contra academicos to De musica. Although dealing only intermittently with memoria, these works nevertheless lay the foundation for his more mature thought on the matter (pp. , , ). Hochschild highlights De musica as a watershed because here for the first time Augustine embeds his anthropology firmly into a moral and cosmological context (pp. –, ). In Part III (pp. –) Hochschild has a close look at the Confessions and On Trinity, the works in which Augustine develops his mature thought on memory most extensively and remarkably consistently (p. ). From the many important and illuminating observations I wish to highlight her description of the Church as a ‘hermeneutic body’ that manages to combine the love of truth shared by all with a hermeneutic diversity that allows multiple approaches to Scripture (pp. –), the tension between our memory of the divine in our soul and the fact that all our learning is dependent on the world around us (p. f.), and how this tension can be resolved through the incarnation (pp. –). Hochschild concludes that for Augustine the central role of memory lies in its ability to connect the temporal and transient with the eternal and unchanging (pp. f., –, ), while not being able to resolve in this life ‘the dialectical play of knowledge and love of what is possessed, yet not possessed’ (p. ). These exciting results trigger the question whether one could find echoes of them in Augustine’s other later works and what the implications could be. This is a thorough and imaginative study that will benefit and stimulate the expert and will be an indispensable item on any interested student’s study list. Hochschild is to be congratulated on her fine achievement.

Research paper thumbnail of M. Citroni: Poesia e lettori in Roma antica: Forme della comunicazione letteraria (Collezione storica). Pp. xv + 507. Rome and Bari: Laterza, 1995. L. 70,000. ISBN: 88-420-4653-1

The Classical Review, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine on Music and on History - A. Keller: Aurelius Augustinus und die Musik: Untersuchungen zu “De musica” im Kontext seines Schrifttums. (Cassiciacum, 44.) Pp. 354. Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag, 1993. DM 87. - C. Müller: Geschichtsbewuβtsein bei Augustinus: Ontologische, anthropologische und...

The Classical Review, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine on Music and on History - A. Keller: Aurelius Augustinus und die Musik: Untersuchungen zu “De musica” im Kontext seines Schrifttums. (Cassiciacum, 44.) Pp. 354. Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag, 1993. DM 87. - C. Müller: Geschichtsbewuβtsein bei Augustinus: Ontologische, anthropologische und...

The Classical Review, 1997

Soon after his conversion, c. 388-390, Augustine wrote De musica as part of the ambitious project... more Soon after his conversion, c. 388-390, Augustine wrote De musica as part of the ambitious project to write treatises on all the Liberal Arts, following the tradition of Varro but taking a Christian point of view. He never actually completed this task, and apart from De musica only De dialectica and (perhaps) De grammatica are extant. In general, scholarship has not dealt too much with this early writing of Augustine, and mostly from a narrow perspective, i.e. either within the context of the development of theories on music during the centuries, as proof of the status of education and knowledge in Latin Antiquity, or out of a philosophical/theological interest. K. gives on pp. 47-65 a survey of previous scholarship on De musica, useful, but perhaps not critical enough. Moreover the survey is not complete; cf. in addition A. Burda, 'Zwei Urvater der Kybernetik in der Musik: Augustinus und A. Kircher,' Musica Antiqua 6 (1982), 115-30, and A. Quacquarelli, 'Le science e la numerologia in S. Agostino,' VetChr 25 (1988), 359-79.

Research paper thumbnail of Hypocrisy and the history of salvation: Medieval interpretations of Matthew 23

Wiener Studien, 2001

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Research paper thumbnail of Augustins Transformation der traditionellen römischen Staats-und Geschichtsauffassung (Buch 1-5)

Horn, Christoph (Hg.): Augustinus. De civitate Dei, …, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Human Sin and Natural Environment

Augustinian Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Freedom and Necessity

Augustinian Studies, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Knowing One’s Place:Eschatological Thought in Augustine

Research paper thumbnail of Poetry and suffering: Metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum

Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity, 2007

Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletia... more Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletian a whole army of Christian soldiers from the Egyptian Thebais, under their leader Mauritius, was killed at Acaunum in the Swiss Alps. The soldiers died as martyrs because they refused to obey the emperor's order to fight against fellow-Christians. This brief prose narrative had a textual transmission and manifested its influence both in places of worship and an iconographic tradition up to the late Middle Ages. A further aspect of the Passio's reception manifests itself in various versifications of this story that have so far attracted any attention and is the topic of this investigation. The poetic paraphrases of Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux are analysed. The most important changes in these paraphrases in comparison with their prose hypotext are further highlighted. Keywords: Christian; Egyptian Thebais; Eucherius; Passio Acaunensium Martyrum ; Sigebert of Gembloux; Venantius Fortunatus; Walafrid Strabo

Research paper thumbnail of To write by advancing in knowledge and to advance by writing

Augustinian Studies, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Tradition and Innovation

The Baptized Muse, 2017

This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new ... more This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new forms and concepts. This chimes with the modern definition of literary genres as open systems with fluid boundaries, consisting of a set of characteristics which can overlap; thus, one work can potentially be classified under more than just one literary genre. The principles advocated in modern literary theory, especially ‘family resemblance’ and participation instead of essentialism, are useful to accommodate historical changes of a literary genre, as well as the formation of hybrid genres for which both the Hellenistic Age and Late Antiquity are famous. The chapter concludes that the cultural transfer achieved by early Christian writers is as much about remembering as about forgetting the past in order to free capacity for a new world-view.

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions. Edited by Karla Pollmann and Mark Vessey

Research paper thumbnail of Non est masculus et femina – Gal 3,28 in Kommentarauslegungen des 4./5. und des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein nicht eingelöstes Vermächtnis?

English title: Spiritus et Littera: Contributions to Augustine research. Festschrift for the 80th... more English title: Spiritus et Littera: Contributions to Augustine research. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Cornelius Petrus Mayer OSA

Research paper thumbnail of Augustinus, Christliche Bildung (Stuttgart 2002, 2nd edition, 2013)

Research paper thumbnail of The Transformation of the Epic Genre in Late Antiquity

Research paper thumbnail of The Universality of Augustine’s Hermeneutics

Research paper thumbnail of Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries

A Companion to Late Antiquity

This Augustinian interpretation of God's commandment in Genesis 1: 28, ''increase ... more This Augustinian interpretation of God's commandment in Genesis 1: 28, ''increase and multiply,'' as referring to the possibility of multiple interpretation (''exegesis'') of the biblical text (O'Donnell 1992: 400–1; Müller 1998: 616, 625, 648), is remark-able in at least two ways. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Wann ist der Mensch ein Mensch? Anthropologie und Kulturentstehung in spätantiken Autoren

Aspekte spätantiker Anthropologie

wird in dieser Abhandlung nicht eigens behandelt. Generell kann man sagen, dass christliche Autor... more wird in dieser Abhandlung nicht eigens behandelt. Generell kann man sagen, dass christliche Autoren in dieser Hinsicht zumeist eine Chance versäumt haben; siehe den Beitrag von Clark oben S. 159-180. 4 Im Jahr 2004 wurde in den Kinos ein Film mit dem Titel "Genesis" gespielt, dessen Untertitel lautete "Woher kommen wir?". Basilius reflektiert in seiner Predigt zum Sechstagewerk darüber, indem er die Bedeutung von arche in Gen 1, 1 nicht als ,Zeitteil', sondern als .Prinzip der Ordnung und des Zwecks' festlegt und damit vom Simultanakt der Schöpfung ausgeht (alles war vom ersten Augenblick der Schöpfung an vorhanden), was theologische Ursachen hat; cf. Bas. hex. 1, 6. Für einen Überblick über pagane Kulturtheorien cf. Müller. 5 Der im Folgenden als im Wesentlichen agrarisch-vegetarisch eingegrenzt wird, da die Pflanzen als Nahrung für Mensch und Tier definiert werden (Gen 1, 29-30). 6 Cf. Thraede 1192-1194 und passim für einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Entwicklung dieses Konzeptes von der Antike zur Spätantike.

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine beyond the Book

Augustine beyond the Book, 2012

The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall, and Vindication of Augustine 1. Sche... more The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall, and Vindication of Augustine 1. Scheme of a zonal map with the five zones and their habitability status. The Northern temperate zone shows the three known continents up to the fifteenth century (A). Scheme of a TO map showing the arrangement of the three continents of the ancient/medieval "oikoumene-island" (B). Note the different orientations in each map.

Research paper thumbnail of Saint Augustine of Hippo. An intellectual biography. By Miles Hollingworth. Pp. xix + 312. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £20. 978 14411 737 20

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2014

and, second, to demonstrate his originality by which a ‘genuinely plotinian spiritual language is... more and, second, to demonstrate his originality by which a ‘genuinely plotinian spiritual language is put to the use of a distinctively incarnational model of knowledge of God’ (p. , cf. p. ). Hochschild is particularly to be applauded for her recognition that Augustine’s thought can never be fully explained by one predecessor alone (pp. , , cf. pp. f.). Part II (pp. –) is dedicated to Augustine’s earlier works, from the Contra academicos to De musica. Although dealing only intermittently with memoria, these works nevertheless lay the foundation for his more mature thought on the matter (pp. , , ). Hochschild highlights De musica as a watershed because here for the first time Augustine embeds his anthropology firmly into a moral and cosmological context (pp. –, ). In Part III (pp. –) Hochschild has a close look at the Confessions and On Trinity, the works in which Augustine develops his mature thought on memory most extensively and remarkably consistently (p. ). From the many important and illuminating observations I wish to highlight her description of the Church as a ‘hermeneutic body’ that manages to combine the love of truth shared by all with a hermeneutic diversity that allows multiple approaches to Scripture (pp. –), the tension between our memory of the divine in our soul and the fact that all our learning is dependent on the world around us (p. f.), and how this tension can be resolved through the incarnation (pp. –). Hochschild concludes that for Augustine the central role of memory lies in its ability to connect the temporal and transient with the eternal and unchanging (pp. f., –, ), while not being able to resolve in this life ‘the dialectical play of knowledge and love of what is possessed, yet not possessed’ (p. ). These exciting results trigger the question whether one could find echoes of them in Augustine’s other later works and what the implications could be. This is a thorough and imaginative study that will benefit and stimulate the expert and will be an indispensable item on any interested student’s study list. Hochschild is to be congratulated on her fine achievement.

Research paper thumbnail of M. Citroni: Poesia e lettori in Roma antica: Forme della comunicazione letteraria (Collezione storica). Pp. xv + 507. Rome and Bari: Laterza, 1995. L. 70,000. ISBN: 88-420-4653-1

The Classical Review, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine on Music and on History - A. Keller: Aurelius Augustinus und die Musik: Untersuchungen zu “De musica” im Kontext seines Schrifttums. (Cassiciacum, 44.) Pp. 354. Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag, 1993. DM 87. - C. Müller: Geschichtsbewuβtsein bei Augustinus: Ontologische, anthropologische und...

The Classical Review, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine on Music and on History - A. Keller: Aurelius Augustinus und die Musik: Untersuchungen zu “De musica” im Kontext seines Schrifttums. (Cassiciacum, 44.) Pp. 354. Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag, 1993. DM 87. - C. Müller: Geschichtsbewuβtsein bei Augustinus: Ontologische, anthropologische und...

The Classical Review, 1997

Soon after his conversion, c. 388-390, Augustine wrote De musica as part of the ambitious project... more Soon after his conversion, c. 388-390, Augustine wrote De musica as part of the ambitious project to write treatises on all the Liberal Arts, following the tradition of Varro but taking a Christian point of view. He never actually completed this task, and apart from De musica only De dialectica and (perhaps) De grammatica are extant. In general, scholarship has not dealt too much with this early writing of Augustine, and mostly from a narrow perspective, i.e. either within the context of the development of theories on music during the centuries, as proof of the status of education and knowledge in Latin Antiquity, or out of a philosophical/theological interest. K. gives on pp. 47-65 a survey of previous scholarship on De musica, useful, but perhaps not critical enough. Moreover the survey is not complete; cf. in addition A. Burda, 'Zwei Urvater der Kybernetik in der Musik: Augustinus und A. Kircher,' Musica Antiqua 6 (1982), 115-30, and A. Quacquarelli, 'Le science e la numerologia in S. Agostino,' VetChr 25 (1988), 359-79.

Research paper thumbnail of Hypocrisy and the history of salvation: Medieval interpretations of Matthew 23

Wiener Studien, 2001

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Research paper thumbnail of Augustins Transformation der traditionellen römischen Staats-und Geschichtsauffassung (Buch 1-5)

Horn, Christoph (Hg.): Augustinus. De civitate Dei, …, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Human Sin and Natural Environment

Augustinian Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Freedom and Necessity

Augustinian Studies, 2008