Possidius of Calama

Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St. Augustine''s and best known for writing a biography of the bishop of Hippo, the Vita Augustini. Hermanowicz analyzes both the biography and the legally-oriented career of Possidius to illustrate how active Augustine''s colleagues were in soliciting imperial support against their religious competitors and to show just how often Augustin...