My talk will deal with ‘unwritten letters' among the total of 270 letters of
Augustine known to us (but without the recent Divjak and Dolbeau finds). They
give us an excellent impression of the mechanisms of communication and conflict
solving between Church and state in the west of the Roman Empire. Together with
prosopographic facts from other collections of correspondence, records of
African synods and imperial constitutions which have previously overlooked, the
sources take on a life of their own. The result is an unfamiliar portrait of a
man you all know well - Augustine of Hippo.
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