« Evodius d’Uzalis, témoin discret des mutations culturelles et religieuses en Afrique romaine tardive », in Revue des Études Tardo-Antiques, XII, 2022-2023, p. 93-141. By Mohamed Arbi Nsiri

https://www.academia.edu/128118828/_Evodius_d_Uzalis_t%C3%A9moin_discret_des_mutations_culturelles_et_religieuses_en_Afrique_romaine_tardive_in_Revue_des_%C3%89tudes_Tardo_Antiques_XII_2022_2023_p_93_141?rhid=39357331266&swp=rr-rw-wc-9656817&nav_from=88e9b0c2-a176-49fb-b5ba-e6e3f46b68f1 vodius, bishop of Uzalis in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, was a slightly younger contemporary of Augustine of Hippo. Dynamic since his episcopal election, he remained operative for at least two decades, very much a part of Augustine’s team of allies and colleagues. He was one of the first North African bishops to receive and venerate the relics of Saint Stephen in the 420s and active on the Augustinian side in the controversies over grace and free will that followed Augustine’s polemics with the Pelagians. Author of the Aduersus Manichaeos, an anti-Manichaeans treaty written a few years before the Vandal conquest of Roman Africa, he remained throughout his entire life a faithful defender of his Catholic Church against those he described as infidels and heretics. Unlike the bishop of Hippo whose life and writings have been well known since the Early Middle Ages, Evodius’s career and theological production remained unknown until recently. This paper therefore attempts to shed light on the life and the work of this relatively little-known figure of the Late Roman North Africa. ...