Augustine's Confessions (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine of Hippo's account of his conversion to Christianity and his life up to that point. Written c397AD, it has many elements of autobiography with his scrutiny of his earlier life, his long relationship with a concubine, his theft of pears as a child, his work as an orator and his embrace of other philosophies and Man
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Around 397
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)
- Council of Nicaea (325)
- Edict of Milan (313)
- Sack of Rome by Visigoths (410)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Conversion of Constantine (312)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Christianity becomes Roman state religion (380)