Description: "This book was originally published in 2014 by Mimesis Edizioni, Milan, as La simbologia musicale nei commenti ai Salmi di Agostino"--Translator's note.
Brief description: Miles Hollingworth is Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St. John's College, Durham. His writing on Augustine has won awards from the Society of Authors (2009 Elizabeth Longford Grant for Historical Biography) and the Royal Society of Literature (2009 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction). He is the author of The Pilgrim City: St. Augustine of Hippo and his Innovation in Political Thought (also published by Bloomsbury), which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone History Book Prize.
Review Quotes:
"Laurence Wuidar introduces readers to the many and complex meanings attributed to music by Christians; all of which she does by a careful analysis of Augustine's Expositions on the Psalms... Her beautiful essay highlights the profound link established by Augustine between the affections and music, as well as the profound metaphorical values of the latter. She leaves the reader with the feeling that these reflections of Augustine were by no means secondary to the rest of his corpus." - Vittorino Grossi, The Augustinianum, Italy
"Laurence Wuidar invites us to rethink the categories of discourse about music, and really, music itself, and what it can convey in relation to God and the unknown. Hers is a masterful study of the ineffable, using words that move the reader beyond the limits of words, and into the realm of pure knowing." - Susan Wessel, The Catholic University of America, USA