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THE LIFE OF AUGUSTINE - FREDERICK VAN FLETEREN ...

In 1695  Louis Sébastien  Le Nain de Tillemont completed volume 13 of his Mémoire
ecclésiastique  entitled La vie de saint Augustin. Consisting of approximately 1 200 pages
wherein Tillemont compiled all extant passages relevant to the biography of Augustine of Hippo
the biography was published posthumously in 1700. The work lies in the tradition of Jansenism
from Port-Royal and the Leuven. Though an ascetic recluse on the family estate for the last
twenty years of his life  Tillemont was in touch with important scholars and the ecclesiastical
movements of his time. His work is the first modern biography of Augustine  and the most
comprehensive of all Augustinian biographies  modern authors consult him and frequently adopt
his theories without citation. His method exercises influence on Parisian scholarship on
Augustine to this very day. This English translation has been divided into three volumes: 1:
birth to Episcopal consecration (354-396)  2: the Donastist controversy (397-411)  3: the
Pelagian controversy (412-430).

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