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.

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Call Number: BT826 .R67 2013

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
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  • Epistolary Friendship /
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  • Death, Burial and the Hereafter in Augustine's Works /
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  • The Structure of De cura pro mortuis gerenda /
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  • What Is the Usefulness of Burial ad sanctos? /
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  • Worst-Case Scenario: No Burial at All /
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  • Burial ad sanctos: Interaction between Place and Prayer /
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  • Attachment to the Body versus Care for the Soul /
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  • What about a Request for Burial in a Dream? /
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  • Augustinus Narrator: Dreaming of the Deceased /
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  • Present Angels, Absent Deceased /
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  • Asking an Expert: John of Lycopolis /
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  • Burial ad sanctos: An Incentive for Recommending the Deceased /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Indexes /
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