The Cambridge history of early Christian literature

Young, Frances M.; Ayres, Lewis; Louth, Andrew; Casiday, Augustine

doi:10.5860/choice.42-4588

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This innovative study illuminates the role of polemical literature in the political life of the Roman empire by examining the earliest surviving invectives directed against a living emperor. Written by three bishops (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Lucifer of Cagliari), these texts attacked Constantius II (337–61) for his vicious and tyrannical behaviour, as well as his heretical religious beliefs. This book explores the strategies employed by these authors to present themselves as fearless champions of liberty and guardians of faith, as they sought to bolster their authority at a time when they were out of step with the prevailing imperial view of Christian orthodoxy. Furthermore, by analysing this unique collection of writings alongside late antique panegyrics and ceremonial, it also rehabilitates anti-imperial polemic as a serious political activity and explores the ways in which it functioned within the complex web of presentations and perceptions that underpinned late Roman power relationships.

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Rufinus's Eusebius: Translation, Continuation, and Edition in the Latin Ecclesiastical History

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Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History is customarily regarded as an inferior creature to the Greek original. By examining Rufinus's complete translation and continuation together, however, a more sympathetic understanding of his Latin version can be reached. This shows that Rufinus's version was by no means a clumsy version of the Greek followed by a mediocre continuation, but was conceived of as a unified whole. Hence Rufinus revised Eusebius's text not only where he found it to be deficient, but also in order to make it fit with a new vision of Christian history that took account of events subsequent to the age of Constantine. Viewed in this light, Rufinus's version emerges as a more original contribution to ecclesiastical historiography than has been acknowledged hitherto.

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The Cambridge history of early Christian literature

Cited by 13 publications

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Literacy from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, c. 300–800 AD

Literacy from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, c. 300–800 AD

Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective

Rufinus's Eusebius: Translation, Continuation, and Edition in the Latin Ecclesiastical History

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