Object's details: Between Authority and Orthodoxy: Historical Perspectives and Narrative Strategies in Sozomen of Bethelia's Historia Ecclesiastica

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Title:
Between Authority and Orthodoxy: Historical Perspectives and Narrative Strategies in Sozomen of Bethelia's Historia Ecclesiastica
Creator:
Chilson, Cyril Adrian Francis
Contributor:
University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History;
Cyril A F Chilson was born in Petakh Tikva, Israel (10 June 1962). He read History, Classics and Byzantine Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the University of Oxford. He teaches Patristics and Hebrew Bible at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK.;
cyril.chilson@protonmail.com
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This doctoral dissertation is a study of Sozomen of Bethelia's HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA . Sozomen (Salamanes Hermias Sozomenos ca. 370 - after 450) was a lawyer, a native of Bethelia (present day Beit Lahiye near Gaza in Palestine) who settled in Constantinople. His ecclesiastical history was intended to cover the period between 324 and 439, but ends abruptly at 425, possibly due to natural causes. The present dissertation looks at Sozomen's historical perspectives which, as is argued, are shaped by the legacy of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-339), the inventor of the genre of Historia Ecclesiastica, as well as the Bible. Sozomen's narrative strategies and his authorial voice are reflecting the Zeitgeist of the 440's in the Eastern Roman Empire under Theodosius II, a period of religious uncertainty and doctrinal conflicts. Sozomen. a follower of Nicene orthodoxy, is nonetheless an ambivalent historian who observes with irony the relations of Church and State, treats the myth of Constantine I with an uncommon combination of reverence and displeasure, and dedicates large portions of his work to the heroic legacy of Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 296- 373) and John Chrysostom (347-407) The present study seeks to look afresh at a major historical work, the riches of which were mined by scholars of late antiquity but was hardly ever studied on its own merits.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2024.12.03;
2024;
2024.12.13
Type:
PhD/Doctoral Dissertation
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Subject:
Ecclesiastical Historiography;
Late Antiquity;
Byzantium;
Eastern Roman Empire
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/53841
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Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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