Article,

L’Histoire ecclésiastique d’Eusèbe ou la présence des œuvres perdues

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Antiquité Tardive, (2014)
DOI: 10.1484/J.AT.5.103176

Abstract

A commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius requires a discussion of the text as a memorial work, and its examination from the perspective of Cultural History, so dear to the Anglo-Saxons. Indeed, the Ecclesiastical History goes beyond a mere collection of extant documentation: it skillfully interweaves quotations and allusions so as to present them as meaningful literary / historical traces. The disposition of these traces, along with some literary / historical grey areas that they tend to produce, has had unfortunate consequences on subsequent research, which has tried to make the text into something that it is not. Thus, there is all the more reason to re-examine these traces - which this article can only outline - while also heeding the silences in the text where Eusebius allowed his Ecclesiastical History to resonate with the lack of certain documents that he could not access.

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