The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana

Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres and the first ever English translation of Hydatius. The first, the Chronicle of Hydatius, is an account of the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of the world under the twin pressures of barbarian invasion and heresy between AD 378 and 468/9, written by a Spanish bishop who lived in the first independent barbarian state established within the Empire. The second, the Consularia Constantinopolitana, is a complex document of differing dates and hands which was continued down to AD 468 with the addition of many detailed historical entries.They provide an indispensable contemporary account of the fourth century AD. These editions, based on the first ever examination of all surviving manuscripts, are provided with detailed introductions and appendices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-09-23
Mått:164 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Classical Monographs
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198147879

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R. W. Burgess is a professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written five books, over forty articles and chapters, and almost seventy encyclopaedia entries on chronicles, numismatics, late Roman and Byzantine historiography, and late Roman history.

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'This is a more important book than most editions of well-known ancient texts ... there can be no doubt that this book presents the two texts in a far more reliable form than we have had, with a translation for which both students and their teachers will be grateful, and that it also makes a major contribution to our understanding of late Roman chronicles.'R.A. Markus, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 45, No. 4 - 1994

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Hydatii limmici chronica subdita: Hydatius and his "Chronicle"; manuscripts and editions; chronology; Lacunae, fragments, and interpolations; presentation of the text; previous editions of MS B; sigla; text and translation. Part 2 The "Consularia Constantinopolitana": prolegomena; analysis of the pre-389 material; Hydatius and the "Consularia"; analysis of the post-388 material; presentation of the text; previous editions of the "Consularia"; sigla; text.