Church History
Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History (complete)
Eusebius of Caesarea
Ten books, and most of what anyone knows about the first three centuries is inside them.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 176
- Stat total
- 294
Base stats
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Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Ten books, complete, running from the apostles to Constantine — the whole of it, not the scraps you were carrying. Deep Stamina.
Eusebius argues by producing the paperwork. He was at Nicaea, he had the library at Caesarea, and he puts the documents on the table rather than telling you what they said.
A rich tradition in Greek, Syriac and Latin that agrees with itself — but Eusebius revised his own book at least twice as the empire changed around him, and the recensions do not match. Sturdy rather than immovable.
It has been THE history of the early church for seventeen centuries, and it is a paperback in every bookshop now. It takes the floor first almost anywhere.
Cited for this book
Eusebius wrote the first history of the church and invented most of how it is done — quoting sources at length, naming them, and letting a document he disagrees with stand in his own book. He also lived through the Great Persecution and watched friends die in it, and then lived to see the emperor call a council. Almost every first- and second-century Christian writer we can name, we can name because of these ten books.
Development
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Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | From the Documents | History | Argument | 84 | 100% | 10 |
| 34 | The Canon List | Bible | Argument | 82 | 100% | 10 |