Reconsidering the Vita Augustini by Possidius of Calama: Towards a Meth-od for the Study of Free Speech in the Thought of Augustine by Pablo Irizar

“… By applying tools of the history of emotions to study the Vita Augustini by Possidius of Calama—a friend, episcopal colleague, and the first biographer of Augustine of Hippo—the present article analyzes parrhesia or fearless speech as an exercise in the regulation of fear, of which authentic martyrdom is the ideal expression in early Christian North Africa. The study accentuates the centrality of parrhesia in Augustine’s life and reflection and challenges current scholarly assumptions about the parameters of parrhesia as a social construct and about the nature of its Christianizing transformations in late Antiquity. …”
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THE ORIENTATION OF COLONIAL CHURCHES OF FUERTEVENTURA by M. F. Muratore, A. Gangui

“…Unlike what was found in other islands of the archipelago, these results suggest that the religious architecture of Fuerteventurafaithfully follows the prescriptions contained in the texts of early Christian writers.…”
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The Evolution of Book Circulation in Imperial Age: Legal and Christian Literature by Arnaldo MARCONE

“…<br />It is remarkable that in the same time, already in the earliest centuries, Christians were heavily involved in writing, copying, reading, exchanging, and disseminating a great number of texts as it is proven in the passage from the roll to the codex with the very construction of early Christian scriptural documents so as to render them more easily accessible to sub-elite readers. …”
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