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NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPOULOS , of See also:

Constantinople, the last of the See also:

Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished 1320-1330. His Historia Ecclesiastica, in eighteen books, brings the narrative down to 61o; for the first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, See also:

Eusebius, See also:

SOCRATES

Socrates, See also:

SOZOMEN

Sozomen, See also:

THEODORET

Theodoret and See also:

EVAGRIUS (c. 536–600)

Evagrius, his additions showing very little See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty; for the later See also:

period his labours, based on documents now no longer extant, to which he had See also:

FREE

free See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access, though he used them also with small discrimination, are much more valuable. A table of contents of other five books, continuing the See also:

HISTORY

history to the See also:

DEATH

death of See also:

Leo the Philosopher in 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is doubtful. Some See also:

MODERN

modern scholars are of See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that Nicephorus appropriated and passed off as his own the See also:

WORK

work of an unknown author of the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The See also:

plan of the work is See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good and, in spite of its fables and superstitious absurdities, contains important facts which would otherwise have been unknown. The history of the Latin See also:

Church receives little See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention. Only one MS. of the history is known; it was stolen by a See also:

TURKISH

Turkish soldier from the library at Buda during the reign of See also:

Matthias See also:

CORVINUS, JANOS [JOHN] (1473–1504)

Corvinus of See also:

Hungary and taken to Constantinople, where it was bought by a See also:

Christian and eventually reached the imperial library at See also:

Vienna. Nicephorus was also the author of lists of the emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople, of a poem on the See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

Jerusalem, and of a synopsis of the Scriptures, all in iambics; and of commentaries on liturgical poems. See also:

WORKS

Works in J. P. See also:

MIGNE, JACQUES PAUL (1800-1875)

Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxlv.-cxlvii.; see also F. C.

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