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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor - Church and War in Late Antiquity (Paperback, New)
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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor - Church and War in Late Antiquity (Paperback, New)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 55
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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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