The ecclesiastical history / Eusebius ; with an English translation by Kirsopp Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340.

Contributor:

Lake, Kirsopp, 1872-1946.

Oulton, J. E. L. (John Ernest Leonard), 1886-1957.

Lawlor, Hugh Jackson, 1860-1938.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 153,265.

Loeb classical library ; 153,265

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.

Summary:

Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260- 340 AD, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of moderates, and made the first draft of the famous creed.

Of Eusebius' many learned publications we have "Martyrs of Palestine" and "Life of Constantine; " several apologetic and polemic works; parts of his commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah; and the Chronographia, known chiefly in Armenian and Syriac versions of the original Greek. But Eusebius' chief fame rests on the "History of the Christian Church" in ten books published in 324- 325, the most important ecclesiastical history of ancient times, a great treasury of knowledge about the early Church.

Notes:

First published in 1926-32.

Vol. 2: "With an English translation of J. E. L. Oulton ... taken from the edition published in conjunction with H. J. Lawlor".

ISBN:

0674991699

0674992938

OCLC:

12528437