The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana

a valuable addition ... also presents valuable insights into early medieval historiographic manuscript compilation ... B.'s reviewing of knowable facts about Hydatius and the composition of his Chronicle is valuable ... The text itself is excellent. Altogether this new presentation of the text impresses the reader with Hydatius' care as a chronographer. B.'s working displays skilful scholarship and exhaustive diligence, distilled into a volume which will be much appreciated by all users, and advancing the study not only of the two texts involved but more generally of late antique historiography.

Autorentext
R. W. Burgess is a professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written five books, over forty articles and chapters, and almost seventy encyclopaedia entries on chronicles, numismatics, late Roman and Byzantine historiography, and late Roman history.

Klappentext
New critical editions, with detailed introductions, appendices, and English translations of two important historical sources for late antiquity.

Zusammenfassung
This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres and the first ever English translation of Hydatius. The first, the Chronicle of Hydatius, is an account of the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of the world under the twin pressures of barbarian invasion and heresy between AD 378 and 468/9, written by a Spanish bishop who lived in the first independent barbarian state established within the Empire. The second, the Consularia Constantinopolitana, is a complex document of differing dates and hands which was continued down to AD 468 with the addition of many detailed historical entries. They provide an indispensable contemporary account of the fourth century AD. These editions, based on the first ever examination of all surviving manuscripts, are provided with detailed introductions and appendices.

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