Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

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First four centuries AD

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Latin

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Full

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Adopting a format of Suetonius, this work was continued several times (Gennadius of Marseilles, Isidore of Seville, Ildefons of Toledo).

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T.P. Halton (1999) Saint Jerome: On illustrious men (The Fathers of the Church, 100). Washington D.C.
E.C. Richardson (1896) Hieronymus: Liber de viris inlustribus. Gennadius: Liber de viris inlustribus. Der sogenannte Sophronius (Texte und Untersuchungen, 14.1). Leipzig.
K. Siamake (1992) Ἰερωνυμοῦ: De viris illustribus. Thessalonica.
A. Ceresa-Gastaldo (1988) Girolamo: Gli Uomini Illustri (Biblioteca patristica, 12). Florence.
C. Barthold (2010) Hieronymus, De viris illustribus: Berühmte Männer. Mülheim.

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Bibliography:

(1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 616
R. Burgess, M. Kulikowski (2013) Mosaics of time: The Latin chronicle traditions from the first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. Volume One: A historical introduction to the chronicle genre from its origins to the High Middle Ages (Studies in the early Middle Ages, 33). Turnhout.