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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Church and War in Late Antiquity.
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Hardcover. The first translation into a modern language in over a hundred years of a vital source for the history of church and empire in Late Antiquity. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 828.
The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac in A.D. 568/9 drew extensively on the Ecclesiastical History of Zachariah the Rhetor, who later became bishop of Mytilene and ended up giving his name to the whole work. But Zachariah’s Ecclesiastical History, which forms books iii to vi of Pseudo-Zachariah’s work and covers the period from 451 to 491, is just one of a ... Read more
The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac in A.D. 568/9 drew extensively on the Ecclesiastical History of Zachariah the Rhetor, who later became bishop of Mytilene and ended up giving his name to the whole work. But Zachariah’s Ecclesiastical History, which forms books iii to vi of Pseudo-Zachariah’s work and covers the period from 451 to 491, is just one of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846314933
SKU
V9781846314933
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About
Sebastian Brock is Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Reviews for The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Church and War in Late Antiquity.
… I would recommend this book very highly to those interested in Christian history or those who are wishing to investigate every nuance of the history of the Later Roman Empire, and I would like to put on record my thanks to LUP for making this volume available.
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