Title:	Possidius of Calama
Authors:	Erika T., Hermanowicz
Keywords:	A Study of the North African Episcopate at the Time of Augustine
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	Oxford
Description:	This book is about Possidius of Calama, an episcopal colleague and friend of Augustine’s, who wrote the only contemporary biography about the bishop of Hippo. The Vita Augustini depicts Augustine as the single, dominant religious force in North Africa. The other bishops, whom Possidius never even identi- fi es by name, comprise an amorphous crowd of grateful supporters, and this is because his portrait of Augustine engages in a great deal of wishful thinking, informed more by the fear that Augustine’s reputation was waning in the years after his death than by a strict adherence to events. The fact is that Augustine’s episcopal colleagues, Possidius included, had their disagreements with the great man, and they prevailed more often than Possidius liked to admit.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9145
ISBN:	978–0–19–923635–0
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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