HOLLIS Primo for 'Acts Council of Aquileia 381' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20Council%20of%20Aquileia%20381&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns three records, none of them a translation: Thomas Graumann, 'The acts of the early church councils: production and character' (Oxford, 2021), a monograph on how conciliar acta were made, and two copies of 'Religions of late antiquity in practice' (Princeton, 2000), a sourcebook of short extracts. A second query, 'synod Aquileia acts translation' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,synod%20Aquileia%20acts%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns a single irrelevant record. The Liverpool Translated Texts for Historians volume of Ambrose's political letters and speeches translates Letters Book Ten and the letters outside the collection but, as its contents note shows (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097612590203941), does not include the Gesta, so the nearest English vehicle for Ambrosian documentary texts does not carry it. No English translation of the acts as a whole was located; the Latin text survives as a verbatim transcript of the interrogation of Palladius and Secundianus, with the creed they produced and the individual votes of the bishops.
The Aquileia gesta are the only near-verbatim Latin transcript we have of a fourth-century doctrinal trial: the exchange between Ambrose and the two Illyrian bishops, with the creed produced and the votes of the bishops recorded. They are the primary evidence for how a council actually worked in 381, for the procedure by which a bishop was condemned, and for Ambrose's conduct of the case. English readers meet the council only through narrative histories; the document itself, with its procedural detail and its record of dissent, has never been translated. No electronic text of the gesta could be verified in Corpus Corporum, so no etext is recorded here.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| Religions of late antiquity in practice | "Religions of late antiquity in practice." Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990085678340203941 |
| Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice | "Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice." Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99154096605903941 |