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Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea, (260?–340?), a Christian scholar and writer, called “the Father of Church History.” He became bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about 315 and was a leader in the First Council of Nicaea (325). Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History is the chief source of information about Christianity from the age of the apostles to the writer's own time.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, First Baron Macaulay of Rothley (1800–1859), an English author and statesman. His major literary work was A History of… More »

Raphael Holinshed

Holinshed, Raphael (?–1580?), an English chronicler. Early in the reign of Elizabeth I he began work with Reginald Wolfe, a printer who was… More »

Edward Gibbon

Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794), an English historian. Gibbon's six-volume The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88) was… More »

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