Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception (Brill's Church History)

[Cover] Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine's impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The included studies trace intricate and occasionally surprising instances of Augustine's ubiquitous presence in intellectual, spiritual and artistic terms. The result is a far more differentiated and dynamic picture of the mechanisms by which the legacy of an historical figure may be perpetuated, including the sometimes supra-rational and imaginative dimensions of transmission Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Acknowledgements 16 List of Contributors 20 Introduction 26 Part One Visualizations of Augustine 36 Art and Authority: Three Paradigmatic Visualizations of Augustine of Hippo 38 The Reception of Augustine in Orthodox Iconography 64 Reformations: The Painted Interiors of Augustine and Jerome 84 Part Two Dramatizing Augustine on Stage 120 Augustine and Drama 122 Augustine on Stage in the Southern Low Countries in the Early Modern Period 136 Part Three Augustine in Confessionalized Contexts of Spirituality and Devotion 154 Images and Themes Related to Augustine in Late Medieval Sermons 156 Pseudo-Augustine and Religious Controversy in Early Modern England 172 Under the Cover of Augustine: Augustinian Spirituality and Catholic Emblems in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 192 Orating from the Pulpit: The Dutch Augustine and the Reformed Godly until 1700 220 Part Four Musical Variations on Augustine 240 The Renaissance Reception of Augustine’s Writings on Music 242 A Musical Relecture of Augustine’s Conversion: La Conversione di Sant’ Agostino by Maria Antonia Walpurgis and Johann Adolf Hasse 270 St. Augustine in Twentieth-Century Music 288 Part Five Augustine Beyond Himself 304 The Antipodeans and Science-Faith Relations: The Rise, Fall and Vindication of Augustine 306 Beyond the Books of Augustine into Modern Psychotherapy 338 Bibliography 364 Index Nominum et Rerum 382 This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates the processes by which Augustine of Hippo's writings were re-invented in other media, including the visual arts, drama and music. Thereby it highlights the crucial role of Augustine's readers in constructing his universal stature.