Rufinus of Aquileia and the “Historia Ecclesiastica,” Lib. VIII-IX, of Eusebius. By Torben Christensen. Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 58. Copenhagen: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1989. 339 pp. DDK 450,00 paper.

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-381
Author(s):  
Donald Krug
Keyword(s):  
Historia Ecclesiastica

On an Alleged Senatus Consultum against the Christians

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mattias Gassman
Keyword(s):  
Historia Ecclesiastica

Abstract A passage in Macarius Magnes’ Apocriticus (2,14 Volp) has recently been adduced to support the long-controverted hypothesis that a senatus consultum was issued against the Christians in the year 35. The note reviews the evidence and finds it wanting. Of the texts usually adduced, Tertullian, Apologeticum 5,1–3 does not describe a senatus consultum, Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 5,21,4 and the Greek and Armenian Acta Apollonii say nothing about Tiberius, and Jerome, Chronicon 35–36 post Christum appears to be an elaboration from Tertullian. The Macarian passage, in turn, refers to a “common judgment” and describes the condemnation of Christians by all respectable persons, especially the senatus populusque Romanus. It does not describe the promulgation of a formal senatus consultum.

Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society

After Lavinia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
Northern European ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Historia Ecclesiastica ◽  
Royal Women ◽  
History Of Marriage

This chapter focuses on interdynastic marriage in Roman successor states beyond the Alps, the kingdoms of the Merovingian Franks and the Anglo-Saxons during the northern European conversions to Christianity. It considers religious conversion stories that document the expansion of a Latin-based, premodern diplomatic society, beginning with a discussion of Historiae, Gregory of Tours's account of the Burgundian princess Clothilde's conversion of her Frankish husband, Clovis, and its place in the history of marriage diplomacy. The chapter proceeds by analyzing Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, which suggests that clerics may have supplanted royal women as actors in the expansion of diplomatic society after the great conversions. Gregory of Tours and Bede both advocated interdynastic marriage as a vehicle for the Christianization of Europe. Clerical marriage was a regular feature of diocesan life in sixth-century Francia, and Gregory frequently refers to the wives of priests and of his brother bishops.

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