Ecclesiastical history used by Liberatus

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history used by Liberatus
  • Graecum Alexandriae scriptum
    (Graecum Alexandriae scriptum, A Greek work composed in Alexandria)
Period covered:
Ca. 451-536
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
According to Bleckmann (2010), the text was composed as a response to the pro-miaphysite history of Zachariah Scholasticus. Liberatus mentions the source only in his preface; the identification of the fragments must proceed by comparison and inference.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Liberatus, Breviarium pr., 14-18
Bibliography:
  • B. Bleckmann (2010) 'Tendenziöse Historiographie bei Liberatus: Von Proterius bis Athanasios II.'. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 14: 166-195.
  • E. Schwartz (1936) Concilium universale Chalcedonense. Volume Five: Collectio Sangermanensis (Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, 2). Berlin - Leipzig.