A Commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda

Rhetoric in Practice

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著者：
Paula Rose
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 argument and a detailed philological commentary, this study shows that Augustine’s text forms a well-composed unity. The study is based on discourse-linguistic and narratological concepts as well as an analysis of the global structure of the narratives. Relying on this combined approach Rose demonstrates how Augustine explores the full breadth of his narrative material in the service of his argument. In addition, this book situates Augustine’s text in its cultural-historical context.
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2013
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978-90-04-25128-1
Publication date:
16 May 2013
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978-90-04-22822-1
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17 May 2013
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Front Matter
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： i–xxi
Epistolary Friendship
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 3–23
Death, Burial and the Hereafter in Augustine’s Works
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页码： 25–43
The Structure of De cura pro mortuis gerenda
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 45–71
What Is the Usefulness of Burial ad sanctos?
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页码： 75–113
Worst-Case Scenario: No Burial at All
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页码： 115–175
Burial ad sanctos: Interaction between Place and Prayer
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 177–220
Attachment to the Body versus Care for the Soul
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 221–286
What about a Request for Burial in a Dream?
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 287–314
Augustinus Narrator: Dreaming of the Deceased
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 315–404
Present Angels, Absent Deceased
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 405–469
Asking an Expert: John of Lycopolis
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 471–555
Burial ad sanctos: An Incentive for Recommending the Deceased
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 557–581
Bibliography
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 583–615
Indexes
著者： Paula J. Rose
页码： 617–622
Paula J. Rose wrote her dissertation on Augustine’s De cura pro mortuis gerenda at the VU University of Amsterdam. She is a teacher of Classics at Sint Bonifatius College in Utrecht.
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Preliminary remarks

General Introduction
1. Epistolary friendship
2. Death, burial and the hereafter in Augustine’s works
3. The structure of De cura pro mortuis gerenda

What is the usefulness of burial ad sanctos?

Worst-case scenario: no burial at all

Burial ad sanctos: interaction between place and prayer

Attachment to the body versus care for the soul

What about a request for burial in a dream?

Augustinus narrator: dreaming of the deceased

Present angels, absent deceased

Asking an expert: John of Lycopolis

Burial ad sanctos: an incentive for recommending the deceased

Bibliography
Index of Latin words

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