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17 - Reception in the Period of Reformations

The Confessions, 1500–1650

from Part III - Reception and Reading Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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This chapter examines the reception of Augustine’s “Confessions” in autobiographical writing, drama, and poetry in Western Europe in the period 1500–1650.

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Print publication year: 2020

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Conybeare, C. The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions. London: Routledge, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Courcelle, P. Les Confessions de Saint Augustin dans la Tradition Littéraire. Antécédents et Postérité. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1963.Google Scholar
DiBattista, M. and Wittman, E. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCabe, W. J. An Introduction to Jesuit Theatre. St. Louis, MI: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1983.Google Scholar
Pollmann, K. and Otten, W. (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, three vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Saak, E. L.Augustine in the Western Middle Ages to the Reformation.” In A Companion to Augustine, ed. Vessey, M.. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 465477.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vessey, M.Classicism and Christianity.” In The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, eds. Cheney, P. and Hardie, P.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, vol. 2, 103128.Google Scholar
Visser, A.Reading Augustine through Erasmus’ Eyes: Humanist Scholarship and Paratextual Guidance in the Wake of the Reformation.” Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 28 (2008), 6790.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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