Late Antique Historiography

Ecclesiastical history

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία
    (Ekklēsiastikē historia, Ecclesiastical history)
Author:
Period covered:
Christ-325
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
Barnes (1980: 197-198) argues that Eusebius produced four different versions of his Ecclesiastical history. Treadgold adds a fifth version, written around 326, in which Eusebius omits a few references to Crispus (Treadgold 2010: 39). Burgess (1997: 471-504) limits the number to three. Cassin, Debié and Perrin (2012) rather suggest the existence of one edition, as does Johnson (2014: 104-111).
Edition - Translation:
  • A.C. Bandy (1952-1960) Eusèbe de Césarée: Histoire ecclésiastique (Sources chrétiennes, 31, 41, 55 and 73). Paris.
  • E. Schwartz, T. Mommsen (1903-1909 = 1999) Eusebius: Werke. Volume Two, Parts One and Two (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte). Leipzig.
  • G.A. Williamson (1965) (tr.) Eusebius: The history of the Church from Christ to Constantine. Harmondsworth.
  • F. Migliore, S. Borzi, G. Lo Castro (2001) Eusebio: Storia ecclesiastica. Rome.
  • H. Kraft, Ph. Häuser, H.A. Gärtner (1967) Eusebios: Kirchengeschichte. Darmstadt.
  • A.V. Delgado (1973) Eusebio de Cesarea: Historia eclesiástica. Two Volumes. Madrid.
  • K. Lake, J.E.L. Oulton (1926-1932) Eusebius: The Ecclesiastical history (The Loeb Classical Library 153, 265). Cambridge (MA).
  • P. Bedjan (1897) Histoire ecclésiastique d’Eusèbe de Césarée. Leipzig.
  • W. Wright, N. MacLean (1898) The Ecclesiastical history of Eusebius in Syriac. London - Cambridge.
  • A. Čarean (1877) Ewsebiosi Kesaracwoy Patmut‘iwn Ekełecwoy: The Ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea. Venice.
  • I.V. Krivushine (2013) (tr.) Евсевий Кесарийский: Церковная история (Библиотека христианской мысли: источники). Saint Petersburg.
  • J. Schott (2019) Eusebius of Caesarea, The history of the church. A new translation, Berkeley.
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Bibliography:
  • (1974) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 3495
  • T.D. Barnes (1981) Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge.
  • T.D. Barnes (1980) 'The editions of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical history'. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 21: 191-201.
  • R. Burgess (1997) 'The dates and editions of Eusebius' Chronici canones and Historia ecclesiastica'. The Journal of Theological Studies 48: 471-504.
  • A.J. Carriker (2003) The library of Eusebius of Caesarea (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplement 67). Leiden.
  • M. Cassin, M. Debié, M.Y. Perrin (2012) 'La question des éditions de l'Histoire ecclésiastique et le livre X'. In: Eusèbe de Cesarée, Histoire ecclésiastique: Commentaire. Volume One: Études d'introduction, ed. S. Morlet - L. Perrone, Paris: 185-207.
  • T.D. Chesnut (1977) The first Christian histories. Paris.
  • J. Corke-Webster (2019) Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge.
  • 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.
  • A. Grafton, M.H. Williams (2006) Christianity and the transformation of the book: Origen, Eusebius, and the library of Caesarea. Cambridge (MA).
  • R.M. Grant (1980) Eusebius as a Church historian. Oxford.
  • A. Johnson, J. Schott (2013) Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and innovations. Washington D.C.
  • A. Johnson (2014) Eusebius. London.
  • R. Laqueur (1929) Eusebius als Historiker seiner Zeit. Berlin.
  • H.J. Lawlor (1973) Eusebiana. Amsterdam.
  • J. Moreau (1966) 'Eusebius von Caesarea'. In: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 6: 1052-1088.
  • S. Morlet, L. Perrone (2012) Eusèbe de Cesarée, Histoire ecclésiastique: Commentaire. Volume One: Études d'introduction. Paris.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2010) The early Byzantine historians. Basingstoke.
  • D.S. Wallace-Hadrill (1960) Eusebius of Caesarea. London.
  • F. Winkelmann (1991) Euseb von Kaisareia: Der Vater der Kirchengeschichte. Berlin.