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  • After Augustine

    The Meditative Reader and the Text

    door Brian Stock ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained ... Meer lezen

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  • After Augustine

    The Meditative Reader and the Text

    door Brian Stock ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained ... Meer lezen

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