Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-Century Church PDF
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Translated Texts for Historians 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 knowledge of Latin or Greek is not sufficient to allow them to do so in the original language. Many important Late Imperial and Dark Age texts are currently unavailable in translation and it is hoped that TTH will help to fill this gap and to complement the secondary literature in English which already exists. The series relates principally to the period 300-800 AD and includes Late Imperial, Greek, Byzantine and Syriac texts as well as source books illustrating a particular period or theme. Each volume is a self- contained scholarly translation with an introductory essay on the text and its author and notes on the text indicating major problems of interpretation, including textual difficulties. Editorial Committee Sebastian Brock, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford Henry Chadwick, Oxford John Davies, University of Liverpool Carlotta Dionisotti, King’s College, London Peter Heather, University College London Michael Lapidge, Clare College, Cambridge Robert Markus, University of Nottingham John Matthews, Yale University Raymond Van Dam, University of Michigan Michael Whitby, University of Warwick Ian Wood, University of Leeds General Editors Gillian Clark, University of Liverpool Mary Whitby, Oxford Front cover drawing: Bishops debating, from a medieval ivory (drawn by Gail Heather) A full list of published titles in the Translated Texts for Historians series is printed at the end of this book. Translated Texts for Historians Volume 25 Hilary of Poitiers Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-century Church Against Valens and Ursacius: the extant fragments, together with his Letter to the Emperor Constantius Translated into English with Introduction and notes, from the edition by Alfred Feder in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum vol. LXV (1916) pp. 41-205, by LIONEL R. WICKHAM Liverpool University Press f f l First published 1997 Liverpool University Press Senate House, Abercromby Square Liverpool, L69 3BX Copyright ® 1997 Lionel R. Wickham All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publishers, except by a reviewer in connection with a review for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A British Library CIP Record is available ISBN 0-85323-572-4 Printed in the European Union by Bell & Bain Limited, Glasgow CONTENTS Acknowledgements................................................................................vii Introduction (i) The general scope and significance of the texts ...................... ix (ii) (a) The author ............................................... xii (b) The background to the present texts...................................xv (iii) The literary history of the texts ................................................xxii A synopsis of the fragments of Against Valens and Ursacius Book One...............................................................................................1 Book Two...............................................................................................7 Book Three....................................................................................... 12 A summary of Hilary’s Letter to the Emperor Constantins..........14 The texts in translation with notes. Against Valens and Ursacius: Book One.......................................................................................... 15 Book Two.............................................................................................70 Book Three..........................................................................................93 Letter to the Emperor Constantius ................................................. 104 IV. Select Bibliography...................................................................... 110 V. Indices ......................................................................................... 112 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank the managers of the Bethune-Baker Fund for a grant towards the preparation of the manuscript, and Dr Mark Elliott for putting it on disk. Lionel R. Wickham
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