1. Confessions
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2. Confessions Autobiography Written 397-400 AD
Intended to be read aloud
First autobiography in western world
Written AD
Focuses on Augustine’s sin and conversion to Christianity
Focus on youth
Written in the form of prayers similar in style to the Book of Psalms
Speaks directly to God

3. Written by St. Augustine of Hippo
Authorship
Written by St. Augustine of Hippo AD
Baptized in 387
Theologian and Philosopher
Bishop in Hippo, North Africa
Helped to establish official church doctrine and policy, which was consistently followed in Medieval England

4. Old World to New World Roman world being destroyed;
Pax Romana over
Barbarians invading and straining the empire
Assimilates classical literature  and methods
Intellectual traditions 
Medieval Ages
Christian training and teaching
Helped to preserve classical literature in the collapse of the Roman empire
Religious fervor of the Middle Ages

5. Themes
Grace
Original Sin
Childhood
Heretical Falsehoods

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine)