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Gelasius I. (492-496) : das Papsttum an der Wende der Spätantike zum Mittelalter
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ISBN: 3777281352 9783777281353 Year: 1981 Volume: 18 Publisher: Stuttgart : Anton Hiersemann,


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The letters of Gelasius I (492-496) : pastor and micro-manager of the Church of Rome
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ISBN: 9782503552996 2503552994 Year: 2014 Volume: 1 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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While not completely neglected as a late-antique epistolographer, Gelasius has mainly been considered as a theologian prominent in the Acacian schism and as a forerunner of the mediaeval papacy. This imbalance will be redressed by considering his letters on various problems of his time, such as displaced persons, persecution, ransoming captives, papal property management, social and clerical abuses involving servants, orphans, slaves and slave-owners, the ordination of lower classes, preferential treatment of upper classes, the role of the papal scrinium, violent deaths of bishops, and the celebration of the pagan festival of the Lupercalia. This approach will round out the existing portrait of Gelasius, and make a contribution to a new history of the late-antique papacy, which will revise the view that Gregory the Great was a stand-alone micro-manager without precedent. Comparisons with earlier fifth-century popes like Innocent I and Leo I, and with later popes like Hormisdas and Pelagius I, show the trajectory from Gelasius to Gregory I.


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Ecclesiastical history : the extant fragments : with an appendix containing the fragments from dogmatic writings
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ISBN: 9783110475807 3110475804 9783110477078 Year: 2018 Volume: 25 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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"Gelasius, the Nicene bishop of Caesarea Maritima for roughly the last third of the fourth century, has been overshadowed by his more famous uncle and patron Cyril of Jerusalem. Gelasius' works are preserved only fragmentarily in later authors. The most important of his writings was a church history, which supplemented and continued that of his eminent predecessor Eusebius. Later ecclesiastical historians and hagiographers, such as Rufinus of Aquileia, drew on Gelasius' history extensively, although usually without attribution. It furnished them with a model for Nicene historiography and with material on topics such as the youth of the emperor Constantine, the discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem, the Council of Nicaea, and the beginnings of Christianity in Ethiopia and Georgia. The fragments of Gelasius' Ecclesiastical History are presented here systematically for the first time. They are accompanied by the fragments of his doctrinal writings as well as all known testimonia about the bishop's life and work. The edition is introduced by a thorough discussion of the sources and includes a facing English translation and notes."--

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