Late Antique Historiography

Memoir against John Scholasticus

Title(s):
  • Memoir against John Scholasticus
Author:
Period covered:
565?-571
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Report
Remarks:
John of Ephesus reports that, while imprisoned in Constantinople during the dispute with the patriarch of Constantinople John Scholasticus, Paul of Beit Ukkame (that is, Paul the Black) started writing an account of what John Scholasticus had done to the Church. The account may have started in 565, the first year of John's patriarchate, or in 570, when the dispute between the two began. According to John of Ephesus, Paul was arrested when writing and could not finish the work.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • John of Ephesus, Ecclesiastical history 3.2.2 [Brooks 1935: 55-56]
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • E.W. Brooks (1935) (ed.) Iohannis Ephesini Historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 105: Scriptores Syri, 54). Leuven.
  • E.W. Brooks (1936) (tr.) Iohannis Ephesini Historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 106: Scriptores Syri, 55). Leuven.