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Prosper of Aquitaine (Latin: Prosper Aquitanus; c. 390 – c. 455 AD), also called Prosper Tiro, [3] was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.
Called 'the best disciple of Augustine,' St. Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 370-c. 463/465) devoted his life to defending Augustine's doctrines of grace and predestination against those who opposed it.
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine ; feast day July 7) was an early Christian polemicist famous for his defense of Augustine of Hippo and his doctrine on grace, predestination, and free will, which became a norm for the teachings of the Roman Catholic church.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Prosper’s main attention goes to the leading military men – Constantius, Castinus, Boniface and Aetius. Prosper credited the revival of the empire to the actions of Constantius, Honorius’ general who defeated Constantine iii and rid Gaul of the remaining tyrants (411-415).
The brief summary of literature since 1901, when L. Valentin published his lengthy and influential study of Prosper, is an elegant bibliographical essay that traces the developments in the study of the text and its author.
- Mark Humphries
- 2007
This chapter explores the relationship between Prosper of Aquitaine and Pope Leo I. It explains that Prosper's influential historical text Chronicle was used by several writers such as Victorious of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, and Liberatus of Carthage, in their own histrographic works.
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Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace provides students and scholars with the first biography of Prosper of Aquitaine (388-455) and the first book-length study in Eng...
