Internet Medieval Sourcebooks
Selected Sources: End of the Classical World
Contents
Pagan Late Antiquity
- WEB Ancient History Sourcebook
-
WEB Late Antiquity in the
Mediterranean [At ORB]
- Late Antique Government and
Culture
- The "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- Jordanes (fl.c.550 CE): History of the Goths
Chap. 20: The Devastation of the Goths in the Reign of Gallienus, 260-268
- Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The
Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 [Different version than Tierney's]
- Rutilius Numantius: On His Return,
I.xi.47, The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413
-
Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 CE): The
Battle of Adrianople 378 CE. [At Hillsdale]
- Edward Gibbon: On the
Fall of the Roman Empire.. Not exactly a source, but Gibbon's views are very commonly
discussed in class.
-
Arnold Toynbee: Christianity
and Civilization [At Church of Greece]
A very different view than Gibbon's.
- Procopius: The Plague, 542, History of
the Wars, II.xxii-xxxiii:
Christian Late Antiquity
- Early Christianity After 100
- Persecution of Christians
- The "Triumph of the Church"
- Persecution by
Christians/The End of Paganism
- Early Dogmatic Disputes
- Disputes over the Trinity: Arianism
- Disputes over Christology: Nestorianism and Monophysitism
- The World of the Church Fathers
- WEB Christian
Classics Ethereal Library
For many theological works, including entire contents of the Ante-Nicene and Post
Nicene Fathers series,
-
WEB New Advent Fathers of the Church
Another online version of the Ante-Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers series.
-
WEBSt. Pachomius
Library: Alphabetical Index, for listing of Orthodox documents online.
- St. Vincent of Lerins: The "Vincentian
Canon", 434 CE
A classic definition of "orthodoxy".
- Eastern Fathers
- Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-d.c.395): Life of Macrina,
trans. W.K. Lowther Clarke.
One of the most important lives of a female saint. This is an account of Gregory's
strongminded sister, Macrina (c.327-379)
- Western Fathers
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): Confessions:
His Conversion.
- Dispute Between Symmachus and Ambrose.
- Ambrose of Milan (c.340-397): Ambrose:
Letter to Valentian II, 386, defending the autonomy of the Church.
- Ambrose of Milan (c.340-397): Ambrose:
Letter to Theodosius, 390, rebuke for massacre.
- Ambrose of Milan (c.340-397): Selected
Letters, [At Calgary]
- Theodoret (c.393-466): St. Ambrose
Humiliates Theodosius the Great, from Ecclesiastical History, V.17-18
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): On Christian Doctrine, available soon, The
full text is available now
(from CCEL)
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): City
of God, excerpts. The full text of the City of God is available in PDF
or
html formats
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): The City of God: excerpts
on the Two Cities
- Quicunque Vult, or The Creed of St. Athanasius
Reflects a Latin view of Trinitarian Doctrine.
- Council of Orange 529
The canons of this council attacked the "semi-Pelagians", and supported
Augustine's position on grace and freewill.
- Christianity and Classical
Learning
The German Impact
- Early Germans
- Julius Caesar: The Germans, c. 51 BCE
- Tacitus: Germania,
trans. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb.
- Tacitus: Germania, trans. Thomas
Gordon, full text, Also available in Latin.
- Tacitus: Germania, shorter excerpts.
- Invading Germans/Other "Barbarians"
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