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The Church Fathers · c. 443–450
Ecclesiastical History
Sozomen · c. 400–c. 450
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What it is
A parallel history covering much the same period as Socrates, with far more attention to monasticism and to the conversion of peoples beyond the empire.
Why it lasted
The best source for the spread of Christianity outside the Roman world in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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