A püspöki adminisztráció. Egy késő antik információs üzem működése Augustinus levelezése alapján
The Episcopal Administration. The Operation of an Information Workshop on the Basis of Augustine’s Correspondence in Late Antiquity

Summary/Abstract: Agustine was a bishop in Hippo Regius who had a great influence and a significant social role in late antiquity. Using details which illuminate the information recording of the time, we analyse Augustine’s habits of information handling and his writing, reading, dictating and letter-writing practice to construct a picture about the information flow of the Roman society in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. From Agustine’s correspondence, references of his other works, and from Possidius’ reports who wrote a relevant biography about Augustine we can reconstruct how could the office administration of the bishop of Hippo has been operated. In the studied sources we found references to the material and production of the documents (e.g. charter, parchment, tablet), information is provided about the following items: the secretaries’ and letter-bearers’ work, shorthand recorded texts, Augustine’s works copied in scriptoriums, or copied and forwarded letters. We have references to other document types, registers, synodic official reports which are essential for the operation of the episcopal administration. The “information handling habits” of the bishop of Hippo are outlined from the analysed texts and the part that a bishop could fill in the information flow of the society in the 5th century AD.

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