Medieval History
A little while ago I commissioned an excellent Greek scholar to make a translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's work "On the Celebration of Easter" ("De solemnitate paschalis"). The work is actually lost, but an epitome in 12 chapters survives, and was discovered by Angelo Mai and published ca. 1820.
The translation has now arrived, and is online here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_on_easter.htm
as well as a PDF version at Archive.org here:
http://www.archive.org/details/EusebiusOnTheCelebrationOfEaster
A different translation with commentary and study is due out from Dr. Mark DelCogliano in a volume of papers from Brill sometime soon. But of course that one will not be freely available (although well worth consulting, I am sure).
Also I got bored a week ago and decided to translate John Chrysostom's "First Sermon" (when he was first made a priest) into English from the old French translation of Bareille. This too is done and is online here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_first_sermon.htm
It's not terribly interesting, about a third of it being an encomium of the Bishop of Antioch, Flavian, who had ordained him. But as far as I know there is no other English translation.
I place them both in the public domain. Do whatever you like with them, personal, educational, commercial or whatever. My hope is to encourage interest in both.
- James Of Edessa
I've placed online an English translation of the table of years and events in the Chronicle of the Syriac writer James of Edessa. This continues the table in the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea from where that ends, in 325 AD, down to the early...
- Roger Pearse At It Again....
One of these is the "Commentary on the Nicene Creed" by al-Majdalus. He may have been a Melkite priest of the 10th century. This one came in last weekend, which is why I publicise it. You can get the Arabic text, and English translation in Word documents....
- Commentary On The Nicene Creed
I've placed the English translation by Alphonse Mingana of Theodore of Mopsuestia's "Commentary on the Nicene Creed" online here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_of_mopsuestia_nicene_02_tex t.htm Introduction here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_of_mopsuestia_nicene_01_int...
- Roger Pearse Strikes Again
For those who may find it useful, I've scanned and placed online Weiskotten's English translation (1919) of Possidius' Life of St. Augustine. It's here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/possidius_life_of_augustine_02_text.ht m Possidius...
- Ammianus Marcellinus
From the ever productive and redoubtable Roger Pearse: Since apparently no-one intends to scan an English translation of Ammianus Marcellinus, I have gone ahead and scanned the old Bohn (1862) translation by C.D.Yonge. It's here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Ammianus_Marcellinus...
Medieval History
Eusebius of Caesarea's work "On the Celebration of Easter" via Roger Pearse
A little while ago I commissioned an excellent Greek scholar to make a translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's work "On the Celebration of Easter" ("De solemnitate paschalis"). The work is actually lost, but an epitome in 12 chapters survives, and was discovered by Angelo Mai and published ca. 1820.
The translation has now arrived, and is online here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_on_easter.htm
as well as a PDF version at Archive.org here:
http://www.archive.org/details/EusebiusOnTheCelebrationOfEaster
A different translation with commentary and study is due out from Dr. Mark DelCogliano in a volume of papers from Brill sometime soon. But of course that one will not be freely available (although well worth consulting, I am sure).
Also I got bored a week ago and decided to translate John Chrysostom's "First Sermon" (when he was first made a priest) into English from the old French translation of Bareille. This too is done and is online here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_first_sermon.htm
It's not terribly interesting, about a third of it being an encomium of the Bishop of Antioch, Flavian, who had ordained him. But as far as I know there is no other English translation.
I place them both in the public domain. Do whatever you like with them, personal, educational, commercial or whatever. My hope is to encourage interest in both.
- James Of Edessa
I've placed online an English translation of the table of years and events in the Chronicle of the Syriac writer James of Edessa. This continues the table in the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea from where that ends, in 325 AD, down to the early...
- Roger Pearse At It Again....
One of these is the "Commentary on the Nicene Creed" by al-Majdalus. He may have been a Melkite priest of the 10th century. This one came in last weekend, which is why I publicise it. You can get the Arabic text, and English translation in Word documents....
- Commentary On The Nicene Creed
I've placed the English translation by Alphonse Mingana of Theodore of Mopsuestia's "Commentary on the Nicene Creed" online here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_of_mopsuestia_nicene_02_tex t.htm Introduction here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_of_mopsuestia_nicene_01_int...
- Roger Pearse Strikes Again
For those who may find it useful, I've scanned and placed online Weiskotten's English translation (1919) of Possidius' Life of St. Augustine. It's here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/possidius_life_of_augustine_02_text.ht m Possidius...
- Ammianus Marcellinus
From the ever productive and redoubtable Roger Pearse: Since apparently no-one intends to scan an English translation of Ammianus Marcellinus, I have gone ahead and scanned the old Bohn (1862) translation by C.D.Yonge. It's here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Ammianus_Marcellinus...