Books by Catherine Conybeare
Catherine Conybeare is the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities as well as Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr. Her research centres on late antiquity, and especially the writings of Augustine of Hippo. Her work includes The Irrational Augustine, The Laughter of Sarah: Biblical Interpretation, Contemporary Feminism, and the Concept of Delight, and The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her forthcoming monograph Augustine the African.
Augustine the African
by Catherine Conybeare
St. Augustine (354-430 CE) was one of Christianity's greatest theologians, author of The Confessions and The City of God, who lived in the declining days of the Roman Empire. In this biography, Bryn Mawr professor Catherine Conybeare tells the story of his life by foregrounding the fact that he was born in Africa and spent most of his life in what is now Algeria.
Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar
edited by Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill
Interviews with Catherine Conybeare
The Best Augustine Books, recommended by Catherine Conybeare
Christianity has been profoundly influenced by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), but the fifth-century North African bishop has impacted almost every area of western thought: philosophy, theology, political theory, linguistics, and rhetoric. His Confessions is one of the most recommended titles on Five Books, but is it really the first autobiography? Professor Catherine Conybeare introduces us to the life, thought, and personality of this controversial yet brilliant figure. She picks the best books to learn more about St. Augustine and explores how he has been unfairly maligned.
Interviews where books by Catherine Conybeare were recommended
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King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East
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The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
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The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
by Sophia Rosenfeld
New History Books
New History Books
It’s a golden age for historical writing, as well-researched and sometimes quite specialist books by historians are written in an engaging style for a broad audience. History books out in recent months range from ancient Assyria to the CIA in the 21st century.
