The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1846314941 ISBN 13 : 9781846314940

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac in A.D. 568/9 drew extensively on the Ecclesiastical History of Zachariah the Rhetor, who later became bishop of Mytilene and ended up giving his name to the whole work. But Zachariah’s Ecclesiastical History, which forms books iii to vi of Pseudo-Zachariah’s work and covers the period from 451 to 491, is just one of a range of sources cited by this later compiler. For the period that follows, he turned to other well-informed sources, which cover both church and secular affairs. His reporting of the siege of Amida in 502-3 clearly derives from an eye-witness account, while for the reign of the Emperor Justinian he offers not only numerous documents, but also an independent narrative of the Persian war, as well as notices on the Nika riot and events in the West. This translation (of books iii-xii) is the first into a modern language since 1899 and is equipped with a detailed commentary and introduction, along with contributions by two eminent Syriac scholars, Sebastian Brock and Witold Witakowski.

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À propos de l'auteur

Greatrex: Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Phenix:: Homemaker, Independent Scholar Horn: Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University, USA Selected previous publications: Greatrex: Rome and Persia at War, 502-532 (Leeds, 1998), The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, A.D. 363-630 (with Sam Lieu, London, 2002). - selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2003. Took part in some episodes of a television series, Rome. Rise and Fall of an Empire, screened in Britain in 2009 Phenix: The Sermons on Joseph of Balai of Qenneshrin (Tubingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2008) Horn: Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of Peter the Iberian (Oxford, 2006); 'Let the Little Children Come to Me'. Childhood and Children in Early Christianity (with John W. Martens, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009) Horn and R. Phenix: John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus. (Society for Biblical Literature, 2008) Horn and R. Phenix: Children in Late Ancient Christianity (ed. Volume, Mohr-Siebeck, 2009)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846314941
• ISBN 13: 9781846314940
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 562
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