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Jérôme Lagouanère, « Et quid mihi proderat… ? Augustin et le bon usage des arts libéraux en Conf. I-IV », Vita Latina (documents), ID : 10.3406/vita.2021.1959
Thanks to the anaphor of quid mihi proderat Book IV of Confessions ends with, Augustine takes stock of his knowledge in liberal arts. However, far from expressing a rejection of the disciplinae, this anaphor paradoxically opens the way to a possible redemption of them, as illustrated by the evolution of Augustinian discourse on the subject from 386 until the writing of the Confessions.