A commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda : rhetoric in practice /

In De cura pro mortuis gerenda Augustine interweaves an assessment of burial near the memorial of a martyr with a series of dream narratives. The seeming lack of coherence between argument and narrative in this treatise has puzzled many scholars. Combining an analysis of the overall structure of the...

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Main Author: Rose, Paula Johanna, 1968-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 20.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248663.

Subjects:

Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo. > De cura pro mortuis gerenda.

Dead > Religious aspects > Christianity > Early works to 1800.

Burial > Early works to 1800.

Funeral rites and ceremonies > Early works to 1800.