The Arian Controversy

The following works will be found useful by students who are willing to pursue the subject further. Some of special interest or importance are marked with an asterisk.
(A.) Original Authorities and Translations.
Eusebius, Vita Constantini and Contra Marcellum Ancyranum .
Heathen writers:—Zosimus (bitterly prejudiced); Ammianus Marcellinus for 353-378 (cool and impartial); Julian, especially Cæsares , Fragmentum Epistolæ , and Epp. 7, 25, 26, 42, 43, 49, 52.
(B.) Modern Writers.
1. For general reference:—
Gibbon's Decline and Fall (prejudiced against the Christian Empire, but narrative still unrivalled); Schiller Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit , Bd. ii. (church matters a weak point); Ranke, Weltgeschichte , Bd. iii. iv.
Articles in Dictionary of Christian Biography (especially those by Lightfoot, Reynolds, and Wordsworth), and in Herzog's Realencyclopädie (especially Mönchtum by Weingarten).
Weingarten's Zeittafeln z. Kirchengeschichte (3 Aufl. 1888).
(2.) For special use:—
The whole period is more or less covered by Kaye, Some Account of the Nicene Council , 1853; Stanley, Eastern Church (best account of the outside of the council); Broglie, L'Église et l'Empire romain ; Gwatkin, Studies of Arianism , 1882.
On Constantine, Burckhardt, Die Zeit Constantins , 1853; Keim, Der Uebertritt Constantins , 1862; Brieger, Constantin der Grosse als Religionspolitiker , 1880.