HOLLIS Primo for 'Lucifer of Cagliari' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Lucifer%20of%20Cagliari&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 34 records) shows that only two of Lucifer's works have English translations. The first is Ashley Beck's 'Lucifer of Cagliari, Concerning Athanasius' (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020: https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155522658703941), whose own catalogue description calls it 'the first translation into English of any of Lucifer's works' and which covers De Athanasio alone. The second is Richard Flower's 'Imperial Invectives against Constantius II' (Liverpool: Translated Texts for Historians, 2016), whose contents are Athanasius' History of the Arians, Hilary's Against Constantius and Lucifer's 'The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God', i.e. Moriendum esse pro Dei Filio. De regibus apostaticis is in neither, and the other hits are the CCSL 8 Latin edition (1978), studies of Lucifer's biblical text, and a 1845 Migne volume. No English version of this work was located.
A verse-by-verse political reading of the books of Kings, in which the apostate kings of Israel become Constantius and his bishops; it is one of the earliest Latin treatises to argue that an emperor may be resisted and that a bad ruler forfeits obedience. Lucifer is the extreme case of fourth-century Latin dissent, quoted by later canonists and used as evidence for how the West learned to talk about imperial religious coercion. English readers know him only as the author of one invective.
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| Lucifer of Cagliari, Concerning Athanasius : why no one must judge or condemn a man in his absence | Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari, -approximately 370. "Lucifer of Cagliari, Concerning Athanasius : why no one must judge or condemn a man in his absence." Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155522658703941 |
| Lucifer of Cagliari and the text of 1-2 Kings | Kauhanen, Tuukka, 1978-. "Lucifer of Cagliari and the text of 1-2 Kings." Atlanta : SBL Press, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153700656503941 |
| The Biblical text of Lucifer of Cagliari : Timothy I and II, and Titus | "The Biblical text of Lucifer of Cagliari : Timothy I and II, and Titus." Oxford : A. T. Broome, 1946. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022653070203941 |
| The Biblical text of Lucifer of Cagliari : Romans, I and II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I and II Thessalonians, and the Epistle to the Hebrews | "The Biblical text of Lucifer of Cagliari : Romans, I and II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I and II Thessalonians, and the Epistle to the Hebrews." Oxford : A. T. Broome, 1947. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022653060203941 |
| Imperial Invectives against Constantius II Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari, The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God | Flower, Richard. "Imperial Invectives against Constantius II Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari, The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God." Liverpool University Press 2016. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155250007103941 |