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Historia ecclesiastica Eusebii (Rufinus)
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Latin rendering and continuation of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical history. The work was undertaken at the beginning of the 5th century by Rufinus at the request of bishop Chromatius of Aquileia. Although Jerome had created a translation prior to Rufinus, it was mainly through Rufinus’ translation that Eusebius’ history became known to the early medieval West.
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[ed.] Schwartz, Eduard, and Theodor Mommsen, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 9 vols, vol. 2: Eusebius Werke: Die Kirchengeschichte. Die lateinische Übersetzung des Rufinus, Leipzig, 1903.
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Wright, Neil, “[VI] Rufinus, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gildas”, in: Neil Wright, History and literature in late antiquity and the early medieval West: studies in intertextuality, 503, Aldershot, Brookfield: Variorum, 1995. 1–38.
Breen, Aidan, “A new Irish fragment of the Continuatio to Rufinus-Eusebius Historia ecclesiastica”, Scriptorium 41:2 (1987): 185–204.
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English translation of Books 10 and 11.