Paulinus of Nola

Dennis E. Trout is Associate Professor of Classics at Tufts University.

"It is a book that does full justice, on his own terms, to Paulinus of Nola, a crucial figure in the religious and literary life of Latin Christianity in the late fourth and early fifth centures. Usually overshadowed by even more vivid and better-known contemporaries such as Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, Paulinus has long needed a biographer who could do justice to the poise with which he moved in a world already crowded with literary 'lights'. . . .Trout succeeds in doing all this in a manner that manages to be both exhaustive and invariably instructive."—Peter Brown, author of Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity