Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) PDF
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TranslatedTextsforHistorians Thisseriesisdesignedtomeettheneedsofstudentsofancientandmedi- eval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading sourcematerial,butwhoseknowledgeofLatinorGreekisnotsu⁄cient to allow them todo so inthe original language.Many important Late Imperial and Dark Age texts are currently unavailable in translation anditishopedthatTTHwillhelpto¢llthisgapandtocomplementthe secondary literature in English which already exists.The series relates principally to the period 300^800 AD and includes Late Imperial, Greek,ByzantineandSyriactextsaswellassourcebooksillustratinga particular period or theme. Each volume is a self-contained scholarly translation with an introductory essay on the text and its author and notesonthetextindicatingmajorproblemsofinterpretation,including textualdi⁄culties. EditorialCommittee SebastianBrock,OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxford AverilCameron,KebleCollege,Oxford HenryChadwick,Oxford JohnDavies,UniversityofLiverpool CarlottaDionisotti,King’sCollege,London PeterHeather,UniversityCollege,London MarkHumphries,NationalUniversityofIreland,Maynooth WilliamE.Klingshirn,TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica MichaelLapidge,ClareCollege,Cambridge RobertMarkus,UniversityofNottingham JohnMatthews,YaleUniversity ClaudiaRapp,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles RaymondVanDam,UniversityofMichigan MichaelWhitby,UniversityofWarwick IanWood,UniversityofLeeds GeneralEditors GillianClark,UniversityofBristol MaryWhitby,UniversityofLiverpool Frontcover:SymeonStylitestheElder,redrawnfromasilver-giltplaqueintheLouvre,late ¢fthcentury A full list of published titles in the Translated Texts for Historians series is available on request. The most recently publishedareshownbelow. 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TranslatedTextsforHistorians Volume33 The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus translatedwithanintroductionby MICHAELWHITBY Liverpool University Press Firstpublished2000 LiverpoolUniversityPress 4CambridgeStreet Liverpool,L697ZU Copyright(cid:1)2000MichaelWhitby Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced inanyformwithoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers, exceptbyareviewerinconnectionwithareviewforinclusion inamagazineornewspaper. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData ABritishLibraryCIPRecordisavailable ISBN0^85323^605^4 SetinMonotypeTimesby WilmasetLtd,Birkenhead,Wirral PrintedintheEuropeanUnionby BellandBainLimited,Glasgow ToMax,BrodieandArchie TABLEOFCONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix LIST OFABBREVIATIONS x INTRODUCTION xiii Biographicalinformation xiii Evagrius’world xv TheEcclesiasticalHistory xx Composition xx Sources xxii Ecclesiasticaldocuments xxii Zachariah xxiii Hagiographies xxv Eustathius xxvi ZosimusandPriscus xxvi Malalas xxvii Procopius xxviii Arrangementofmaterial xxxi Ecclesiasticalmatters xxxiv Doctrinalissues xxxiv Evagrius’approach xxxviii Evagriusandcontemporarydisputes xl Evagriusashistorian xlvii Historicaljudgements xlvii Causation l Chronologyanddating li Evagriusasauthor lv Textandtranslation lxi viii EVAGRIUS TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 1 1 TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 2 55 TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 3 127 TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 4 197 TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 5 253 TRANSLATION AND NOTES BOOK 6 289 APPENDIX I BISHOPS OF THE MAIN EASTERN SEES AND OF ROME C.430^600 319 APPENDIX II THE IMAGE OF EDESSA 323 GLOSSARY 327 BIBLIOGRAPHY 333 Sources 333 SecondaryLiterature 341 MAPS 355 CentralandEasternMediterranean 357 TheMiddleEast 358 Antioch 359 Constantinople 360 INDICES 361 PeopleandPlaces 361 Topics 383 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ThistranslationbeganlifeinapostgraduateclassintheUniversityofSt Andrews, and thanks are due to all participants for their labours over their draft translations: Will Fahey, the late Jordanes Grigoriades, William Grant, Martine Perrin Henry, Mark Humphries, David Pritchard, Pierre Poisson, Philip Rance and especially Mary Whitby, who also shared the labouroforganizationand made numerousacute commentsalongtheway.IamalsomostgratefultoAndrewLouthfor prompthelpandadviceondoctrinalmatterswhichhassavedmefrom several errors, to David Taylor, of the University of Nottingham’s Department of Archaeology, for drawing the plans, maps and cover design,andtoLarryConradforeditorialcomments.Preparationofthe text and notes was substantially advanced by the award by the British Academy of a semester of research leave in 1995/6, and I am most grateful to Averil Cameron and James Howard-Johnston for their support in securing this. Completion of the volume and publication havebeendelayedbyvariousfactors,butIhopethattheopportunityto re£ectonthecontentswilloutweightheinevitabledangerofincreasing bibliographicalomissions.Itwouldnothavebeen¢nishedatallwithout thelove,patienceandsupportofLynne. Thevolumeisdedicatedtoourchildren,toMaxandBrodietoshow whythecompeting attractionsofPlaystationorPoke¤monhavehad to beresistedonoccasions,andtoArchiewhowilldoubtlessbeinformed in due course about irregularities in the appearance of his bottle and willwanttoknowthecause.
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