Late Latin Literature: New Sermons of St. Augustine of Hippo

[Ludovicus]

I don't know if anyone has cover this discovery. Here's a link to a summary of some of the finds, listed as the Divjak Letters and the Dolbeau Sermons. The website seems to be run by the Augustinian Order or someone close to it.

 

http://albertesmeralda.squarespace.com/jou...ak-letters.html

 

By the way, the links in the article are dead.

 

Here's a summary of one of the Augustine texts:

 

We do not often find Augustine in so helpless a situation. In 422, he was stranded for weeks in the middle of a countryside where everyone spoke only Punic. He visited the village of Fussala, where the inhabitants pointed out to him the holes in the houses from which Antoninus had pillaged the stones in order to build a splendid new episcopal palace. He was finally left, sitting alone, one morning, in a village church after the entire congregation had walked out in disgust ... leaving him and his colleagues to wonder how, by what series of misjudgments ably exploited by an able rogue, they had brought