Ecclesiastical history

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία
    (Ekklēsiastikē historia, Ecclesiastical history)
Period covered:
305-439
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
That Socrates was a Novatian is now widely accepted, but has to be deduced from his interest in the Novatian schism and his representation of events. The epithet scholasticus is the later Byzantine judgement on his learning.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • (1979) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 6028
  • M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol.
  • H. Leppin (1996) Von Constantin dem Grossen zu Theodosius II.: Das christliche Kaisertum bei den Kirchenhistorikern Socrates, Sozomenus und Theodoret (Hypomnemata, 110). Göttingen.
  • G. Moravcsik (1958) Byzantinoturcica: Die byzantinischen Quellen der Geschichte der Türkvölker. Berlin: 508-510.
  • A. Quiroga Puertas (2014) 'Lexithereo in Socrates' HE 6, 22: Theory or belletrism?'. Philologus 158: 261-274.
  • T. Urbainczyk (1997) Socrates of Constantinople: Historian of Church and state. Ann Arbor.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2004) Un héritage de paix et de piété: Étude sur les Histoires ecclésiastiques de Socrate et de Sozomène (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 142). Leuven.
  • M. Wallraff (1997) Der Kirchenhistoriker Sokrates: Untersuchungen zu Geschichtsdarstellung, Methode und Person (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, 68). Göttingen.