(Others have spoken to its achievement qua translation here I note its impact for the general reading public.) As I do not have substantive criticisms of the present volume, I'll endeavour to show why it will, I think, become the definitive translation and edition of the Ecclesiastical History for scholarly and classroom purposes.
Schott's translation is also a welcome companion to his forthcoming monograph, Eusebius of Caesarea: Textuality and Tradition in Late Ancient Christianity.įor reasons I'll make clear below, I think it is easily the best single volume edition of the Ecclesiastical History now available in English. Jeremy Schott's new translation for the University of California Press, containing just such an accessible translation and the requisite supplementary material for the college student, is thus a welcome event in the study of Early Church and Roman imperial history. Consequently, Eusebius’ History has been long overdue for a new translation with comprehensive notes for classroom and scholarly use.
Williamson's translation for Penguin (1965/1990), which, while elegant and reliable, lacks the sort of supplemental apparatus to make the text really accessible to the modern student. Students of the ‘Christian Herodotus’ have generally had to rely on G.A. It is also one of the more difficult ones for students, due to its complex, uneven narrative style and frequent, extensive quotation of (now lost) earlier historical sources.
Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, recounting in Greek the history of the Christian Church from Jesus Christ to the Emperor Constantine, is one of the most historically valuable works in the European literary tradition.
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