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Eutropius: Breviarium
Av Eutrophius
Häftad, 1993
623 kr
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The first full-scale translation and commentary on Eutropius, whose Breviarium (Abbreviated History of Rome) was a major vehicle for transmitting knowledge of Roman history to people of the Middle Ages and beyond.
Bede: On the Temple
Av Bede
Häftad, 1995
623 kr
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Bede’s aim in De Templo is stated in Chapter I: ‘That the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ’. For anyone with an interest in mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment, the reading of De Templo should prove a sublime experience and its own …
Pacatus
Panegyric to the Emperor Theodosius
Av Nixon
Häftad, 1987
623 kr
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This series is designed to meet the needs of students of ancient and medieval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading source material, but whose Latin and Greek is not sufficent to allow them to do so in the original language. Pactatus' panegyric celebrates Theodosius' victory …
Chronicon Paschale 284-628
Av Whitby
Häftad, 1989
623 kr
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The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.
Politics, Philosophy and Empire in the Fourth Century
Themistius’ Select Orations
Av Heather
Häftad, 2001
580 kr
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Around the year 350, a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favour with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was similarly favoured by subsequent …
Victor of Vita
History of the Vandal Persecution
Av Moorhead
Häftad, 1992
542 kr
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Among the peoples who occupied the territories of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century, the Vandals are notorious for their persecution of the Catholic inhabitants of Africa. By far the fullest narrative of their doings prior to the time of Justinian is that provided by Victor of Vita, …
Venantius Fortunatus
Personal and Political Poems
Av George
Häftad, 1995
623 kr
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Venantius Fortunatus, writing in the latter half of the sixth century, was not only a major Latin poet, but also an important historical figure. He travelled as a young man to seek patronage in the courts of Merovingian Gaul, writing both formal and informal poetry for three of the royal brothers, …
Aurelius Victor
De Caesaribus
Häftad, 1994
575 kr
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This is the first full-scale translation and commentary in English of Aurelius Victor’s De Caesaribus, which provides a brief survey of the emperors of Rome from Octavian Augustus in 30 BC to Constantius II in AD 360.
Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Confessors
Av Van Dam
Häftad, 1988
623 kr
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The first translation into English of one of Gregory’s eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives of confessors.
Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Martyrs
Av Van Dam
Häftad, 1988
542 kr
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The first translation into English of one of Gregory’s eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of martyrs.
The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles
Av Palmer
Häftad, 1993
666 kr
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The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac …
Iamblichus
On the Pythagorean Life
Av Clark
Häftad, 1989
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623 kr
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The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider interest as an account of the religious aspirations of late antiquity.
Gregory of Tours: Life of the Fathers
Av James
Häftad, 1988
545 kr
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The first translation into English of Life of the Fathers, a collection of twenty lives of saints which lives present a cross-section of the Gallic Church and are a counterpart to the secular society described in Gregory’s History of the Franks.
Caesarius of Arles
Life, Testament, Letters
Häftad, 1994
542 kr
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Caesarius was born in 469/70 and served as Bishop of Arles from 502 until his death in 542. Originally trained as a monk at Lérins, he devoted himself as Bishop to an ambitious programme of church reform and Christianization inspired by strict monastic standards of piety. Best known as a preacher, …
The Emperor Julian
Panegyric and Polemic
Av Lieu
Häftad, 1989
623 kr
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This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus’ Hymns Against Julian.
Bede: On the Tabernacle
Av Bede
Häftad, 1994
623 kr
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This volume contains the first English translation of Bede’s allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of the Christian Church. Written in the early 720s at the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, On the Tabernacle (De tabernaculo) was …
The Goths in the Fourth Century
Av Heather
Häftad, 1991
623 kr
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This volume brings together many important historical texts, the majority of them (speeches of Themistius, the Passion of St Saba, and evidence relating to the life and work of Ulfila) not previously available in English translation.
Cassiodorus: Variae
Av Cassiodorus
Häftad, 1992
623 kr
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Cassiodorus (c.485–585), Roman senator and consul, served in various high offices from c.505 to c.538, under the kings of the Ostrogoths, who had inherited the imperial administration of Italy. For long periods the Goths’ chief publicist, he compiled the state papers he had drafted, as their regime …
The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes
(Liber Pontificalis)
Av Davis
Häftad, 1995
615 kr
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In The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes the translator and commentator continues from the year AD 817, reached in his The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool, 1992), and deals with the remaining ten biographies of the Liber pontificalis down to AD 886, when compilation ceased. The volume …
Selected Letters of Libanius
from the Age of Constantius and Julian
Av Bradbury
Häftad, 2004
623 kr
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Libanius of Antioch (AD 314–393) stands out as a fundamental source for the history of the Greek East in the fourth century AD. Drawn from the 1269 letters written between 355 and 365, the 183 letters presented here play an important role in making the age of Constantius II and Julian the Apostate …
Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain
Av Wolf
Häftad, 1999
623 kr
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From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-fifth century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild’s military success and Reccared’s conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the Gothic role in Iberian history. John of Biclaro …
The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos
Av Thomson
Häftad, 1999
753 kr
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The History attributed to Sebeos is one of the major works of early Armenian historiography. Although anonymous, it was written in the middle of the seventh century, a time when comparable chronicles in Greek and Syriac are sparse. Sebeos traces the fortunes of Armenia in the sixth and seventh …
Hilary of Poitiers
Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-Century Church
Av Wickham
Häftad, 1997
623 kr
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Two texts are presented in English translation here. The first is what remains of a historical work Hilary wrote against two distinguished contemporary bishops, Valens and Ursacius, whose intervention on behalf of the Emperor Constantius Hilary thought disastrous. They throw a flood of light upon …
Lives of the Visigothic Fathers
Av Fear
Häftad, 1997
623 kr
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These five seventh-century religious texts cast light not only on the development of the church in Visigothic Spain and its internal politics, but also on its, at times troubled, relationship with the Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the …
Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite
Häftad, 2000
623 kr
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This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502–506 AD. Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match ‘Joshua’ in his wealth of detail, his familiarity …
Avitus of Vienne
Selected Letters and Prose
Häftad, 2002
753 kr
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Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne from c.494 to c.518, is known for his poetic works, but his Latin prose style has led to some neglect of his letters. This first complete translation of the letters into English gives access to an important source for the history of the Burgundian Kingdom …
Antioch as a Centre of Hellenic Culture, as Observed by Libanius
Av Libanius
Häftad, 2000
623 kr
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Focusing on the first and last years of Libanius’ Antiochene career (AD 354–388), this volume illustrates his great range of his rhetorical skills, while at the same time illuminating the intrigues of city politics and university life. The shorter speeches give unparalleled insights into problems …
The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus
Av Whitby
Häftad, 2000
753 kr
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The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius narrates the history of the church from the start of the Nestorian controversy in 428 until the death of Evagrius’ employer, Patriarch Gregory of Antioch Gregory in 592. It is our best continuous account of these ecclesiastical events and provides an important …
Neoplatonic Saints
The Lives of Plotinus and Proclus by their Students
Av Edwards
Häftad, 2000
575 kr
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These two texts are fundamental for the understanding not only of Neoplatonism but also of the conventions of biography in late antiquity. Neither has received such extensive annotation before in English, and this new commentary makes full use of recent scholarship. The long introduction is …
Constantine and Christendom
The Orations of the Saints; The Greek and Latin Accounts of the Discovery of the Cross; The Donation of Constantine to Pope Silvester
Av Edwards
Häftad, 2003
930 kr
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This volume makes available three works attributed to Constantine – two of which were certainly not written by him – which are important sources for historians of the papacy, Christianity and Constantine himself. The Oration to the Saints is an intellectual defence of Christianity, which puts the …
