Augustine beyond the book : intermediality, transmediality, and reception /
edited by Karla Pollmann, Meredith J. Gill.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) : illustrations.
- Brill's series in church history, v. 58 1572-4107 ; Religious history and culture series ; v. 6 .
- Brill's series in church history ; d. 58. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 6. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part One Visualizations of Augustine; Art and Authority: Three Paradigmatic Visualizations of Augustine of Hippo; The Reception of Augustine in Orthodox Iconography; Reformations: The Painted Interiors of Augustine and Jerome; Part Two Dramatizing Augustine on Stage; Augustine and Drama; Augustine on Stage in the Southern Low Countries in the Early Modern Period; Part Three Augustine in Confessionalized Contexts of Spirituality and Devotion; Images and Themes Related to Augustine in Late Medieval Sermons. Pseudo-Augustine and Religious Controversy in Early Modern EnglandUnder the Cover of Augustine: Augustinian Spirituality and Catholic Emblems in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic; Orating from the Pulpit: The Dutch Augustine and the Reformed Godly until 1700; Part Four Musical Variations on Augustine; The Renaissance Reception of Augustine's Writings on Music; A Musical Relecture of Augustine's Conversion: La Conversione di Sant' Agostino by Maria Antonia Walpurgis and Johann Adolf Hasse; St. Augustine in Twentieth-Century Music; Part Five Augustine Beyond Himself. The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall and Vindication of AugustineBeyond the Books of Augustine into Modern Psychotherapy; Bibliography; Index Nominum et Rerum.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates the processes by which Augustine of Hippo's writings were re-invented in other media, including the visual arts, drama and music. Thereby it highlights the crucial role of Augustine's readers in constructing his universal stature.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 --Congresses. Augustine, Saint. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.