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The Rise of the Mediaeval Church: And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century — John Shaqi

The Rise of the Mediaeval Church: And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth CenturyFlick, Alexander Clarence

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The Rise of the Mediaeval Church: And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century

Name: The Rise of the Mediaeval Church: And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century
Author: Flick, Alexander Clarence

Flick, Alexander Clarence

Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

7.--_L'Epigraphie Chrestienne en Gaule et dans l'Afrique._
          Paris, 1890.


MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL CHURCH HISTORIANS:

A.--Before the Reformation:

    I.--Greek:

     1.--Hegesippus, a Christian Jew in Asia Minor (2d cent.),
          wrote a Church history in five books. Based on
          traditions. Only fragments preserved. See _Ante-Nic.
          Lib._, viii., 762-5. See Eusebius.

     2.--Eusebius (d. 340), "Father of Church History," wrote a
          history of Church to 324. Valuable storehouse. Various
          Eng. translations. That by McGiffert, N. Y., 1890, in
          _Nic. and Post-Nic. Fathers_, i., is the best.

     3.--Socrates (d. 408), a lawyer, continued Eusebius to 439.
          Bohn. _Nic. and Post-Nic. Fathers_, ii.

     4.--Sozomen (d. 400), a lawyer, continued Eusebius to 423.
          _Ibid._ Bohn.

     5.--Theodoret (d. 457), a bishop, aimed to complete Socrates
          and Sozomen. _Ibid._ Bohn.

     6.--Evagrius (d. 537), a lawyer, continued Theodoret. Bohn.
          Bagster, _Eccles. Historians_.

     For other Greek historians, lost or not in English, see Alzog,
          i., § 17; Schaff, i., 29.

   II.--Latin--to the Reformation:

     1.--Rufinus (b. 345), a priest, translated Eusebius and added
          an inaccurate history of the Arians (318-395). Preface
          only in Eng. _Nic. and Post-Nic. Fathers_, iii., 565.

     2.--Severus (b. 363), a Gallic priest, wrote the history of
          the world to 400. Good for Gaul. _Ib._, xi., 71-122.

     3.--Orosius (5th cent.), a Spanish priest, wrote a world
          history to 416. Used as a text-book in Middle Ages. Bohn.

     4.--Cassiodorus (d. 562), a statesman and abbot, compiled a
          Church history from Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret.
          This is the famous "Tripartite History." It served as a
          text-book throughout the Middle Ages. Not in Eng. See
          Migne, _Patrologia_, lxix., and Hodgkin, _The Letters of
          Cassiodorus_.

     5.--Gregory of Tours (d. 594), a bishop, wrote a valuable
          history of the Frankish Church. Not in Eng.

     6.--Venerable Bede (d. 735), "Father of English Church
          History," wrote a history of the English Church to 731.
          Many Eng. eds.

     7.--Paul Warnefried (d. 799), a Lombard monk wrote a History
          of the Langobards. Tr. by Foulke, U. of Pa. _Transl. and
          Rep._ Phil. 1907.

     8.--Haymo (d. 853), bishop of Halberstädt, abridged Rufinus
          and added notes of his own. Not in Eng.

     9.--Anastasius (d. 886), abbot and papal librarian at Rome,
          compiled a Church history from the Greek writers. Not in
          Eng.

    10.--Flodoard (d. 966), a bishop, wrote a history of the
          Church of Rheims to 948. Not in Eng.

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The Rise of the Mediaeval Church: And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century

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