By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, this volume delineates a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. The essays consider how one should account for the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, and what demands such writing lay on a modern history of literature.
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By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, this volume delineates a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. The essays consider how one should account for the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, and what demands such writing lay on a modern history of literature.
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Good+ No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 350 pages. Ex-library, though library treatments to spine and 1 to back cover have cleaned up nicely, with 1 small sticker to back cover remaining. Just a touch of wear to exterior. Text clean. Binding sound.