Eternity's ennui : temporality, perseverance and voice in Augustine and Western literature Pranger, M. B 2010 Brill eBook titles ( Serie ) Leiden ; Boston : Brill 9789004189379 | BRILL9789004189379 Abstract

This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?

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Medicine, Medieval