Augustine and Books

Guy G. Stroumsa*

*Corresponding author for this work

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7 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to Augustine
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages151-157
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781405159463
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Apr 2012

Keywords

  • "literary" works, displaced by codex
  • "private" and "public" uses of books
  • Augustine, and his relationship with books
  • Christian adoption of codex, universal
  • Circulation, outside conventional "book trade"
  • Late antiquity, an "age of scriptures"
  • Late antiquity, decadence, to unique, creativity
  • Private or personal uses of the Bible, the monastic milieux
  • The roll replacing codex, cognitive and cultural alterations

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