NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPOULOS  , of See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople, the last of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

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
• EUSEBIUS (Gr. EuOi/3tos, from ebaegils, pious, cf. the Latin name Pius)
• EUSEBIUS [OF CAESAREA] (c. 260-c. 340)
• EUSEBIUS [OF EMESA] (d. c. "36o)

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
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

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
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

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
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

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
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

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
• MATTHIAS (1557-1619)

Matthias See also:

• CORVINUS, JANOS [JOHN] (1473–1504)

Corvinus of See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

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

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian and eventually reached the imperial library at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

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 (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

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 .

See also:

• BAUR, FERDINAND CHRISTIAN (1792-1860)

Baur, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Epochen der kirchlichen Geschichtsschreibung (1852) ; C . See also:

• KRUMBACHER, CARL (1856–1909)

Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) ; Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon, ix . (See also:

• FREIBURG

Freiburg See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im See also:

• BREISGAU

Breisgau, 1895) .