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This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AUGUSTINE: POLITICAL WRITINGS This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine,bishop ofHippo fromto ,that deal with political matters.The letters and sermons are both practical and principled and treat many essential themes in Augustine’s thought, including the responsibilities of citizenship,the relationship between the church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war and peace. These texts complement Augustine’sclassic The City of God against the Pagans (also available in the Cambridge Texts series),and give students direct insight into the political and social world oflate antiquity with which Augustine was immediately involved.The slave trade,tax collection,clerical harass- ment, and murder are amongst the topics with which he deals. The volume contains clear, accurate modern translations, together with a concise introduction and informative notes designed to aid the student encountering Augustine’s life and thought for the first time. . . is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds. She co-edited (with M. T. Griffin) and translated Cicero, On Duties for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (). . . is Professor of Patristic Theology and Vice-President at the Patristic Institute,the Augustinianum,Rome.He is the co-editor of Augustine and his Critics(with G.Lawless,). CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Series editors R G,Lecturer in Philosophy,University ofCambridge Q S,Regius Professor ofModern History in the University ofCambridge Cambridge Texts in the History ofPolitical Thought is now firmly estab- lished as the major student textbook series in political theory.It aims to make available to students all the most important texts in the history of western political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century.All the familiar classic texts will be included,but the series seeks at the same time to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating an extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before available in a modern English edition.Wherever possible,texts are pub- lished in complete and unabridged form,and translations are specially commissioned for the series.Each volume contains a critical introduction together with chronologies, biographical sketches, a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus.When com- pleted the series will aim to offer an outline of the entire evolution of western political thought. For a list oftitles published in the series,please see end ofbook AUGUSTINE POLITICAL WRITINGS E. M. ATKINS Trinity and All Saints College,Leeds R. J. DODARO Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum,Rome The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©in the selection, translation and editorial matter, Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2001 ISBN 0-511-03941-7 eBook(netLibrary) ISBN 0-521-44172-2 hardback ISBN 0-521-44697-X paperback Contents Editors’ note pageix Introduction xi Translator’s notes xxviii Principal dates xxxii Bibliography xli Map ofAugustine’s north Africa li Letter :Nectarius to Augustine () Letter :Augustine to Nectarius (/) Letter :Nectarius to Augustine () Letter :Augustine to Nectarius () Letter :Augustine to Paulinus ofNola and Therasia () Letter :Marcellinus to Augustine (/) Letter :Augustine to Marcellinus (/) Letter *:Augustine to Alypius () Letter :Augustine to Auxilius (or –) Letter *:Augustine to Classicianus (or –) Sermon :On the feast ofa martyr vii Contents Letter :Augustine to Marcellinus () Letter :Augustine to Apringius () Letter :Augustine to Marcellinus (⁄) Letter :Macedonius to Augustine (/) Letter :Augustine to Macedonius (/) Letter :Macedonius to Augustine (/) Letter :Augustine to Macedonius (/) Commentary on the gospel ofJohn,(/) Sermon :On the feast ofSt Laurence Sermon :On the words ofPsalm . Letter :Augustine to Crispin () Letter :Augustine to Crispin () Letter :Augustine to Caecilian (/) Letter :Augustine to Donatus () Letter :Augustine to Emeritus (/) Letter :Clergy ofHippo Regius to Januarius (/) Letter :Augustine to Donatus (/) Letter :Augustine to Dulcitius () Letter :Augustine to the Donatists (/) Letter :Augustine to Boniface (c.) Sermon:The sacking ofthe city ofRome (/) Letter :Augustine to Boniface () Letter :Augustine to Boniface () Letter :Augustine to Darius (/) Biographical notes Notes to the text Index ofpersons and places Index oftopics viii
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