Ecclesiastical history

The traditional view is that Gelasius of Caesarea wrote an Ecclesiastical history, which then served as unacknowledged source for Rufinus of Aquileia and Socrates of Constantinople (Winkelmann 1966; Wallraff e.a. 2018). Its end date would be 378 or 395. Van Nuffelen (2002) argues that the work as it is attested must postdate Rufinus and Socrates, and is thus by a Pseudo-Gelasius; Blaudeau (2006: 500) has suggested that an original work by Gelasius was later interpolated and updated, and that our fragments derive from this later work. The history is likely to be identical with the Greek translation of Rufinus' Church history (Rufinus Graecus; already argued in Van Nuffelen 2002 and misinterpreted by Wallraff 2019), which was then interpolated with material from Socrates. The edition by Wallraff e.a. 2018 is problematic (see Van Nuffelen 2019).