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This chapter is divided into two sections. The first addresses the question of authorship and establishes a list of authentic works by Prosper. The second details the important literature on Prosper from the early twentieth century to the present. The lack of certainty surrounding the details of Prosper’s life has led scholars to focus ...
Prosper of Aquitaine 163 After 395, the interests of Prosper and Hydatius diverge, the latter showing a tendency to concentrate on Spanish matters. For example, under 409, Prosper wrote only that the Vandals had invaded Spain ($1237)~while Hydatius gave detailed information about a disagreement in his sources as to whether the invasion occurred on 28 September or 12 October ($42)!
- Mark Humphries
- 2007
Prosper was a native of Aquitaine, and may have been educated at Bordeaux. By 417 he arrived in Marseilles as a refugee from Aquitaine in the aftermath of the Gothic invasions of Gaul. In 429 he was corresponding with Augustine. [4] In 431 he appeared in Rome to appeal to Pope Celestine I regarding the teachings of Augustine; there is no ...
years after Prosper concluded his historical account. Few concrete details survive about Prosper’s early life, but it would seem that he was born around 390 in the region of Aquitaine to a family of Gallo-Roman aristocratic background.1 It is also certain that he received an advanced education in Aquitaine, given the quality of his
ABstrAct. Contemporary liturgical theologians rely upon the now classic passage from Prosper of Aquitaine—ut legem credendi lex statuat supplicandi—as a foundation for much of their constructive proposals. However, the competing interpretative approaches to Prosper’s adage have threatened its integrity by either expecting too much or too ...
AQUITAINE:AQUITAINE: A FIFTH CENTURY POPE. Several of the popes of late antiquity are known expert advisers to draft correspondence and to doctrinal and other technical questions. Jerome in this capacity at the close of the fourth century,1 Cassian2 and Victorius of Aquitaine3 responded to respective requests for help from Leo and Hilary ...
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The Chronicle is Prosper's only historical work. Its authenticity is not in doubt, but a number of puzzles about it remain. Mommsen has demonstrated 4 the carelessness — even the ‘fraudulence’ — with which Prosper treats the dates he derived from consular lists; and the dates of his entries in the later part of the Chronicle, where Prosper is writing about his own times, need careful ...
