The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana

R. W. Burgess is a professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written five books, over forty articles and chapters, and almost seventy encyclopaedia entries on chronicles, numismatics, late Roman and Byzantine historiography, and late Roman history.

• Part 1 Hydatii limmici chronica subdita: Hydatius and his "Chronicle"; manuscripts and editions; chronology; Lacunae, fragments, and interpolations; presentation of the text; previous editions of MS B; sigla; text and translation. Part 2 The "Consularia Constantinopolitana": prolegomena; analysis of the pre-389 material; Hydatius and the "Consularia"; analysis of the post-388 material; presentation of the text; previous editions of the "Consularia"; sigla; text.

'This is a more important book than most editions of well-known ancient texts ... there can be no doubt that this book presents the two texts in a far more reliable form than we have had, with a translation for which both students and their teachers will be grateful, and that it also makes a major contribution to our understanding of late Roman chronicles.'R.A. Markus, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 45, No. 4 - 1994