Authorities and Materials.
The chief ancient and medieval authorities for the
life and times of Leo the Great are such works as
Prosper’s
, and
Idatius’ Chronicles, Iornandes de
rebus Geticis, Anastasius Bibliothecarius Historia de vitis Romanorum
Pontificum
(9th cent.), the
Historia Miscella
(10th cent.),
&c.
Among
lives
may be mentioned the
following:—(1)
La vie et religion de
deux bons papes Léon premier et Gregoire premier par
Pierre Du Moulin
(the younger: a protestant theologian),
Sedan
, 1650.
12mo. (2)
Quesnel’s
valuable
Dissertatio de vita et rebus gestis S. Leonis Magni
, originally
included in his edition of Leo and re-printed by Migne in Vol. ii. of
his edition with the Ballerinii’s annotations and critical
remarks,
Paris
, 1675,
Lyons
, 1700. (3)
Histoire du Pontificat de Saint Léon le Grand
par Monsr. L. Maimbourg La Haye
, 1687. (4)
The Bollandists’ Life by Canisius
(
Acta
Sanctorum
),
April
, vol. ii. pp. 14–22.
(5)
Alphonsi
Ciaconii
Vitæ Pontificum
(
Tom.
1, pp. 303–314),
Rome
, 1677,
4
to
. (6)
Le Nain de
Tillemont
,
Memoires pour servir à
l’histoire Ecclesiastique
(vol. xv. pp.
414–832, 885–934),
Paris
, 1711. (7)
Breve Descrizione della vita di
S. Leone Primo di
Gabrielle
Bertazzolo
:
Mantova
, 1727.
(8)
Memoire istoriche di Sa. Leone Papa da
Teofilo
Pacifico
:
Brescia
, 1791, 8
vo
. (9)
Du
Pin
, L. E.,
History of Ecc. writers
(Eng Edn. vol. 1, pp.
464–480),
Dublin
, 1722. (10) C.
Oudinus
,
de Scriptoribus Ecclesiæ
(vol. 1, pp. 1271–5),
Leipzig
, 1722. (11)
Wilhelm
Amadeus
Arendt
(
Roman Catholic
),
Leo der
Grosse und seine Zeit, Mainz
, 1835, 8
vo
. (12)
Eduard
Perthel
,
Papst Leo’s I. Leben und Lehren, Jena
, 1843, 8
vo
.
(a counterblast to No. 11, and no less exaggerated and prejudiced in
statement). (13) A.
de
Saint-Chron
,
Histoire du pontificat de
Saint Léon le Grand, Paris
, 1846. (14) F.
Böhringer
,
die Kirche Xti und ihre
Zeugen
(vol. 1 part 4, pp. 170–309),
Zürich
,
1845. (15)
Charles
Gore’s
Life of Leo the Great
(S.P.C.K.); also
his article in Smith’s
Dict. of Christian Biogr
.
(16) The article in
Herzog’s
Real-Encyklopädie
of which a condensed English edition was
edited by Dr. Philip Schaff at New York in 1883. Other more
general accounts of his times will be found in (1) l’abbé
Fleury
,
Histoire du
Xtianisme
(vol. ii. pp. 384–480),
Paris
,
1836. (2)
Bright’s
History of
the Church from
313–451 (chaps. xiv., xv.),
Oxford and
London
, 1860. (3)
Milman’s
Latin Christianity
(Book ii. chap. 4),
London
,
1864. (4) R. J.
Rohrbacher’s
Histoire
Universelle de l’Eglise catholique
(15th edn.,
vol. 4, pp. 461–575),
Paris
, 1868. A short account
of Leo’s writings is given in
Alzog’s
Grundriss der Patrologie
, § 78,
pp.368–375: a most exhaustive one in
Ceillier’s
Histoire
générale des Auteurs sacrés
(new
edition) (vol. x., pp. 169–276), 1858–1869.
Bähr’s
Geschichte der
Römischer Literatur-Supplement Band II. Abtheilung
(pp.
354–362),
im Abendland
, vol. 1, p. 448, may also be
consulted; and
Ebert’s
Allgemeine
Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters
.