We were delighted to invite our legators to an online talk by Bart van Es, Pro-Master and Professor of English at St Catherine’s College. Bart is the author of several books on Shakespeare and Spenser, and in 2019 his biography of a holocaust survivor, The Cut Out Girl, won the Costa Book of the Year. His next book, True Fire, about St Augustine, will be released next year.
In True Fire, Bart van Es examines how a world in crisis transformed Augustine and how he, in turn, transformed our world. Under the pressures of his age, Augustine originated a new understanding of time itself; was the first to formulate Just War Theory; invented the genres of autobiography and soliloquy; and created t...