8. 
Augustine:
A New Biography (New York: Ecco Books, 2005).
UK
Edition by Profile Books.
Selected Articles and Reviews on Late Antiquity by
J. O'Donnell
'Paganus,' Classical
Folia 31(1977) 163-69
'The
Career of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus,' Phoenix 32(1978) 129-43
'Demise
of Paganism,' Traditio 35(1979) 45-88
'The Inspiration for Augustine's De civitate Dei,'
Augustinian
Studies 10(1979) 75-79
'Augustine's
Classical Readings,' Recherches augustiniennes 15(1980) 144-75
'Liberius
the Patrician,' Traditio 37(1981) 31-72
'The
Aims of Jordanes,' Historia 31(1982) 223-40
'Salvian and Augustine,' Augustinian Studies 14(1983)
25-34
'The
Authority of Augustine',
Augustinian Studies 22(1991), 7-35
'St. Augustine
to NREN: The Tree of Knowledge and How It Grows', The Serials Librarian
23.3/4 (1993), 21-41
"The
Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed", in Okerson and Mogge,
edd., Gateways, Gatekeepers and Roles in the Information Omniverse,
(Washington DC, 1994)
'The
Holiness of Gregory', Gregory the Great: A Symposium (ed. J.
Cavadini: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), 62-81.
'Augustine's
Idea of God',
Augustinian Studies 25(1994) 25-35.
'The
Pragmatics of the New: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus', forthcoming
in a collective volume, The Future of the Book.
"Texts
and Commentaries": experiments in on-line publication: de
vera religione 1.1, epistula
151, soliloquia
1.1.2-6.
"Augustine's
de
civitate dei"
"Saint
Augustine", Encyclopedia Britannica.
"The
Missing Link"
Apart from numerous items indexed in Bryn Mawr Classical
Review and Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, see also reviews of:
P.R. Doob,
The
idea of the labyrinth, originally in Comparative Literature
Studies 29(1992) 210-14.
response
to
three
reviews of my Augustine: Confessions, Augustinian Studies
25(1994) 231-36.
Essay
review of R. Herzog, Restauration et renouveau, a new history
of fourth-century (A.D.) Latin literature.
Articles, etc., on cultural practices
ancient and modern
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"New Tools
for Teaching": WWW-based description and demonstration of ways to use
the Internet to enhance teaching today. This is supplemented by an article,
"Teaching
with Technology" from the Penn Printout, our campus magazine
for electronic technology in the academic setting. See also "The New Liberal
Arts", Ideas: From the National Humanities Center 3.2(1995) 45-50
(WWW version forthcoming). Most recently, see "Humanities
in the 21st Century", a conversation between myself and NEH chair Sheldon
Hackney, published in Humanities (September-October 1995).
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"Can E-Journals Save Us?" in M.Butler and B. Kingma, edd.,
The
Economics of Information in the Networked Environment (Washington 1996).
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"Retractations",
the afterword to S. Nichols and S. Wenzel, edd.,
The Whole Book: Cultural
Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1996).
-
Scholarly
Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing,
edited by Ann Shumelda Okerson and James J. O'Donnell (Washington: Association
of Research Libraries, 1995).
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'St. Augustine
to NREN: The Tree of Knowledge and How It Grows', The Serials Librarian
23.3/4 (1993), 21-41
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"The
Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed", in Okerson and Mogge,
edd., Gateways, Gatekeepers and Roles in the Information Omniverse,
(Washington DC, 1994)
-
'Going
Electronic: The Bryn Mawr Classical Review' Surfaces
4(1994) 104.
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'The
Pragmatics of the New: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus', forthcoming
in a collective volume, The Future of the Book.
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"Teaching
on the Infobahn,"Religious Studies News 9.3(1994) 4.
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Cassiodorus:
an e-postprint version of the full text of my 1979 book.
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Richard
Lanham, The Electronic Word, originally in BMCR 94.6.13
= BMMR 94.6.8.
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"Where
Are We Going and When Did We Get There?" in The Research Library
the Day After Tomorrow (Proceedings of 124th Annual Meeting of the
Association of Research Libraries: Washington DC, 1995), 19-23.
Video:
'Augustine: Late Have I Loved Thee': educational video (37
minutes), written and narrated, produced by Della Robbia Productions, October
1992.
Publications edited by James J. O'Donnell
(in whole or in part)
published since 1990, BMCR carries reviews of recent
books in classical studies. This link leads to the gopher archive of "back
issues": to subscribe on a continuing basis, send mail to majordomo@brynmawr.edu
with nothing on the Subject: line and the message "subscribe bmcr-l". (A
short
history of the journal appeared in the 1995 proceedings of the meetings
of the North American Serials Interest Group.) (See also The
Medieval Review, formerly "Bryn Mawr Medieval Review".
Later Latin Texts and Contexts -- monograph series published
by the University of Michigan Press, embracing all aspcts of post-classical
Latin culture. Volumes in print to date include:
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Michael Roberts, Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The
Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius (1993)
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Robert Hollander, Dante's Epistle to Cangrande
(1993)
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Siegfried Wenzel, Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism
and Preaching in Late-Medieval England (1994)
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Joaquin Martinez Pizarro, Writing Ravenna: A Narrative
Performance in the Ninth Century (1995)
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John O'Brien, Anacreon redivivus: A Study of Anacreontic
ranslation in Mid-Sixteenth-Century France (1995)
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M. Bayless, Parody in the Middle Ages: The
Latin Tradition (1996)
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S. Wenzel and S.G. Nichols, edd., The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives
on the Medieval Miscellany (1996)
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H. Kessler and P. Dutton, The Poetry and Paintings of the First
Bible of Charles the Bald (1997)
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C. McQuillen, A Comedy Called Susenbrotus (1997)
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Carol Everhart Quillen, Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine,
and the Language of Humanism (1998)
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David Marsh, Lucian and the Latins (1998)
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William E. Klingshirn and Mark Vessey, edd., The Limits of Ancient
Christianity: Essays on late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A.
Markus (1999)
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Julia Haig Gaisser, Pierio Valeriano on the Ill-Fortune of Learned
Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999)
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Natalia Lozovsky, The Earth Is Our Book: Geographical Knowledge
in the Latin West ca. 400-1000 (July 2000)
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Barbara C. Halporn, The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early
Printing in its Social Context (July 2000)
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S.A.H. Kennell, Magnus Felix Ennodius: A Gentleman of the Church
(August 2000)
Texts with annotation for use by intermediate and advanced language students
(1984- ), here listing only post-classical Latin titles (numerous
other classical Greek and Latin titles in the series).
Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, ed. J.W. Halporn (1984)
Concilium
Romarici Montis, ed. P. Pascal (1993)
Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, ed. J.F. Collins (1985)
Erasmus, Stultitiae Laus, ed. J.F. Collins (1991)
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyrii, ed. D. Konstan/M. Roberts (1985)
Hrotsvitha, Dulcitius and Paphnutius, ed. P. Pascal (1985)
Medieval Latin Lyric, ed. P. Rainey (1992)
Petrarch, Select Letters, ed. C. Kallendorf (1987)
Prudentius, Psychomachia, ed. R. Burton (1989)
Waltharius, ed. G. Wieland (1986).
Avatars
of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1998).
