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NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPOULOS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 648 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPOULOS , of
Constantinople
 , the last of the 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,
Eusebius
 , Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions showing very little
critical
  faculty; for the later period his labours, based on documents now no longer extant, to which he had free access, though he used them also with small discrimination, are much more valuable. A table of contents of other five books, continuing the history to the death of Leo the Philosopher in 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is doubtful. Some modern scholars are of
opinion
  that Nicephorus appropriated and passed off as his own the
work
  of an unknown author of the loth century. The plan of the
work
  is good and, in spite of its fables and superstitious absurdities, contains important facts which would otherwise have been unknown. The history of the Latin
Church
  receives little attention. Only one MS. of the history is known; it was stolen by a Turkish soldier from the library at Buda during the reign of Matthias Corvinus of
Hungary
  and taken to
Constantinople
 , where it was bought by a Christian and eventually reached the imperial library at Vienna. Nicephorus was also the author of lists of the emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople, of a poem on the capture of Jerusalem, and of a synopsis of the Scriptures, all in iambics; and of commentaries on liturgical poems.
Works in J. P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxlv.-cxlvii.; see also F. C.
Baur
 , Die Epochen der kirchlichen Geschichtsschreibung (1852) ; C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) ; Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon, ix. (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1895).


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