Augustine of Hippo : A Biography. [Africa; Monica; Education; Manichaeism; Dualism; Gnosis; Ambrose; Platonists; Ostia; Thagaste; Hippo; The Sack of Rome; Pelagius & Pelagianism; Julian of Eclanum; End of Roman Africa; Death] by Brown, Peter Robert Lamont. [blurbs, J M Cameron, Frank Kermode, Hugh Trevor-Roper, William B Ryan] - 1967

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967., 1967. Very Good. 1st paperbound edition ; 463 pp. ; 23 cm. ; LC: BR1720.A9; Dewey: 270.2/0924 ; OCLC: 318213 ; LCCN: 67-13137 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; small surface tear from price label on front cover ; "I have tried in this book to convey something of th e course and quality of Augustine's life. Not only did Augustine live in an age of rapid and dramatic change, he himself was constantly changing. The historian of the declining Roman Empire can trace through his life the movements that would lead Augustine the schoolboy, weeping over the old story of Dido and Aeneas in a secure province, to end his life as the Catholic bishop of a North African port that was blockaded by the war-bands of a tribe which had ultimately come from southern Sweden ."-- Preface ; VG