![]() ![]() Augustine, in his, On Christian doctrine ( De doctrina Christina), composed between 396 and 426 AD, offered the first of the medieval treatises on the communicative arts. ![]() Augustine eventually wrote about all this in his influential autobiography, Confessions. He was appointed Bishop of Hippo in 395 and held that position for the remainder of his life. He returned to Africa in 388 and founded a monastery at Hippo. He left his teaching position in Milan to devote himself fully to the church teachings and study. In 386, Augustine underwent a profound personal crisis, which led him to convert to Christianity, he abandoned his career as an educator and teacher of rhetoric. He became disillusioned with this, since his students cheated him out of their fees, so in 384 he moved to Milan, Italy where he became a professor of rhetoric for the imperial court. In 383 he moved Rome and there he established his own school of rhetoric. During his twenties, he taught grammar and ran a school of rhetoric in Carthage in North Africa (now Algeria), the place where he was born and raised. Augustine, most remembered for his theological work, also contributed to the fields of medicine, rhetoric, disability, and education. ![]()
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