The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This translation began life in a postgraduate class in the University of St
Andrews, and thanks are due to all participants for their labours over
their draft translations: Will Fahey, the late Jordanes Grigoriades,
William Grant, Martine Perrin Henry, Mark Humphries, David
Pritchard, Pierre Poisson, Philip Rance and especially Mary Whitby,
who also shared the labour of organization and made numerous acute
comments along the way. I am also most grateful to Andrew Louth for
prompt help and advice on doctrinal matters which has saved me from
several errors, to David Taylor, of the University of Nottingham’s
Department of Archaeology, for drawing the plans, maps and cover
design, and to Larry Conrad for editorial comments. Preparation of the
text and notes was substantially advanced by the award by the British
Academy of a semester of research leave in 1995/6, and I am most
grateful to Averil Cameron and James Howard-Johnston for their
support in securing this. Completion of the volume and publication
have been delayed by various factors, but I hope that the opportunity to
re£ect on the contents will outweigh the inevitable danger of increasing
bibliographical omissions. It would not have been ¢nished at all without
the love, patience and support of Lynne.
The volume is dedicated to our children, to Max and Brodie to show
why the competing attractions of Playstation or Poke¤mon have had to
be resisted on occasions, and to Archie who will doubtless be informed
in due course about irregularities in the appearance of his bottle and
will want to know the cause.