This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

It has been over a decade since the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors

Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical un