Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Ecclesiastical history
Historia ecclesiastica
(Historia ecclesiastica, Ecclesiastical history)

Author:

John the Deacon

Period covered:

Christ-author's time?

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Projected

Genre:

Remarks:

Anastasius Bibliothecarius translated for John the Deacon excerpts from Georgius Syncellus, Theophanes Confessor and Nicephorus (see Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Historia tripartita), as well as a dossier on the monothelite controversy (Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Collectanea). The history of John never saw the light of day.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Anastasius the Librarian, Letter 7 and 9 [Caspar - Laehr, 1928: 418-421, 423-426]

Users:

Sources:

Bibliography:

G. Arnaldi (1956) 'Giovanni Immonide e la cultura a Roma al tempo di Giovanni VIII'. Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano 68: 33-89.
G. Arnaldi (1997) 'Giovanni Immonide e la cultura a Roma al tempo di Giovanni VIII: Una retractatio'. In: Europa medievale e mondo bizantino: Contatti effettivi e possibilità di studi comparati, ed. G. Cavallo - G. Arnaldi. Rome: 163-177.
F. Brunhölzl (1992) Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters. Volume Two. Munich: 331-336.
E. Caspar, G. Laehr (1928) 'Anastasii Bibliothecarii epistulae sive praefationes'. In: Epistolae Karolini aevi. Volume Five, ed. E. Caspar - G. Laehr (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Epistolae, 7). Berlin.
R. Forrai (2008) 'Anastasius Bibliothecarius and his textual dossiers: Greek collections and their Latin transmission in ninth-century Rome'. In: L'antiquité tardive dans les collections médievales, ed. S. Gioanni - B. Grévin (Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 405). Rome: 319-337.