Augustine and the Disciplines

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As a whole, Augustine and the Disciplines reads well, and it is wise to read first the Vessey introduction and then read it again when one is finished with the essays. His vision of the continuity among the essays helps the reader to 're-imagine' the conference itself and engage in the various essays as a common project aimed at solving some difficult - but important - questions in Augustinian scholorship today. * E. Tyler Graham, Religion * This fine collection of essays...is a welcome, well-written and highly interesting study on the development of Augustine's thought within the context of late antique education, without, however, reducing his work to that context alone. * W. F. Smelik, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament * ...[a] tremendous amount of scholarship ... a book not only for historians of the disciplines, but for all those interested in late-antique intellectual culture and education ... [an] informative and inspiring little volume. * The Classical Review * The chief value of this collection of essays consists in the variety of exemplary methods, historical, philological, philosophical, which are employed to study the shift in Augustine's attitudes to the liberal arts between AD 386 and 396 and the larger question of his place in the history of western liberal arts. * Ecclesiastical History *