Pseudo-Augustinus: De oratione et elemosina, De sobrietate et castitate, De incarnatione et deitate Christi ad Ianuarium, Dialogus quaestionum

This volume of the CSEL series presents the first critical edition of the following four pseudo-Augustinian works: De ora­tione et elemosina (CPPM I 1125); De sobrietate et casti­tate (CPPM I 1110); De in­carnatione et deitate Christi ad Ianuarium (CPPM II 170); Dialogus quae­sti­onum (CPPM II 151). These texts, which were written in Late Antiquity or in the Early Middle Ages, are transmitted in the manuscripts under the name of Saint Augustin. Their influence on intellectual his­tory was considerable, because they were thought to be authentic works of the great Church Father and therefore have been widely read and studied for cen­turies. These four pseudo-Augustinian texts are concerned with a variety of quite diffe­rent topics (almsgiving; drinking; Christology; exegesis of the book Genesis); they are of in­ter­est for philologists, theologians and historians for a couple of reasons. – Not only does this CSEL vol­ume present the first critical edition of these texts, it also provides their first de­tai­led study according to modern scientific standards. The origin, the con­tent, the sources, and the transmission of these important and partially intri­guing texts is fully discussed in the prefaces.