The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

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 narrative of disputes within the church in the fifth century, which includes substantial quotations from relevant contemporary documents, some of them unique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853236054
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/02/2001
Series:	Translated Texts for Historians LUP , #33
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	454
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Michael Whitby, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, is coeditor of The Cambridge History of Ancient Warfare.