Research Catalog

Title

Lactantius : Divine institutes / translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey.

Author

Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bowen, Anthony
• Garnsey, Peter

Description

xiv, 472 p; 21 cm.

Summary

"Lactantius enjoyed a high reputation in late antiquity and in the Renaissance, as apologist, rhetorician and stylist. He earned his living as a teacher of rhetorical Latin, and Ciceronian Latin lived again through his pen, enabling his wit and empowering his argument." "This edition of Divine Institutes has been prepared with students and scholars of intellectual history in mind, but it will also appeal to those concerned with ecclesiastical history and patristics, and to anyone interested in tracing the impact of Classical philosophy and literature on an early Christian thinker."-- Publisher description.

Series Statement

Translated texts for historians ; v. 40

Uniform Title

• Divinae institutiones. English
• Translated texts for historians v. 40.

Alternative Title

• Divinae institutiones.
• Divine institutes
• Divine institutes of Lactantius

Subject

• Lactantius > Translations into English
• 30-600
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Apologetics > History > Early church, ca. 30-600

Genre/Form

• Early works
• History
• Early works.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-452) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bk. 1. False Religion -- Bk. 2. The Origin of Error -- Bk. 3. False Wisdom -- Bk. 4. True Wisdom and Religion -- Bk. 5. Justice -- Bk. 6. True Worship -- Bk. 7. The Life of Bliss.

ISBN

0853239886

OCLC

• 54364409
• SCSB-10594316

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library