Between Authority and Orthodoxy. Historical Perspectives and Narrative Strategies in Sozomen of Bethelia’s Historia Ecclesiastica

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[…] the presented dissertation is engaging and intellectually significant. […] It will certainly meet with lively scholarly discussion.
I would like to emphasise that not only the logic of the argument developed in the main course of the narrative, but also the documentation, remains at the highest level. […]
The work will attract the interest of historians of antiquity, Byzantinists, theologians, patristics scholars, and classical philologists. However, the potential circle of readers should be viewed more broadly. What is at stake here is the cultivation of a humanistic interest in European culture and in our identity.
Prof. Kazimierz Ilski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

The book is clearly addressed to an international scholarly readership and fits very well within its research niche […]. Compared with competing publications, the work offers significant added value: its breadth of context, a modern methodological apparatus, a full command of the literature in many languages, as well as its ability to combine political history, theology and narratology, make it an enduring study that will serve as a point of reference for years to come.
Rev. Prof. Józef Naumowicz
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw