CORE-UA 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Augustine Of Hippo, Punic Wars, Donatism
27 Oct 2020
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After st. paul and the writers of the gospels, augustine is arguably the most important figure in the early history of the christian church in the west. He lived at a crucial time, as well, in the late history of the roman empire. Augustine of hippo, as he is designated by his full name, is an african, and became the bishop of the same city. Today the remains of the ancient city of hippo are to be found in the. The map below is a striking image of the roman emperor under collapse during. In the year 410, rome itself was invaded and pillaged by the visigoths in what has come to be called the sack of rome . The visigoths were one of the germanic tribes now flooding into a porous empire: the romans called them barbarians . In 430, the year of augustine"s death, the vandals were besieging hippo, and would conquer it a year later.
