The Lausiac History

Palladius of Antioch (d. 390)

TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE. SERIES I

GREEK TEXTS

THE LAUSIAC HISTORY OF PALLADIUS

By W.K.LOWTHER CLARKE B.D.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

London The Macmillan Company .New York

First published 1918

PREFACE

MY interest in monasticism was first awakened in 1904, when I was a theological student at Cambridge, by the publication of the second volume of Abbot Cuthbert Butler's Lausiac History of Palladius. The appearance of a new work of scholarship, however excellent, would have meant little to me at that time, but my imagination was struck by the dinner which the theological teachers at Cambridge combined to give the author in honour of the completion of his arduous task. Somehow I had not associated monks with dinnerparties, and they appeared to me henceforward in a more human and attractive guise. In 1908 I began to study monasticism, taking Abbot Butler's works as my guide, and have never since lost interest in the subject. During the past year I have tried, during the few leisure hours which were alone possible under war conditions, to forget the tragedies of the time by making a translation of the Lausiac History. I do not know whether an ordinary critical text…

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