About the Author

Brian Croke is the Executive Director of the Catholic Education Commission, Sydney.

Reviews

The detailed study of Marcellinus's reception and transmission over the subsequent centuries is thus a very welcome addition to the study of an intruguing text. Early Medieval Europe Croke has little difficulty in persuading us of the importance and interest of this text for our understanding of the Justinianic world. Journal of Ecclesiastical History A window into early sixth-century Constantinople ... an important and still inspiring interpretation, one that deserves to be read by everyone who reads or uses any late antique chronicle. Journal of Roman Studies