Abstract
The Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 was an event of fundamental importance for the definition of Christian doctrine and organization of the Church, including the question of its relations with secular authorities. This chapter investigates how these perceptions were constructed and sustained through identification of key figures as heroes or bogeymen, selective reporting of the Council's decisions, and critical assessment of those men of power, mostly emperors and patriarchs, who had to come to terms with the problem of the Council. The first major anti-Chalcedonian narrative is the Ecclesiastical History by Zachariah of Mitylene, composed in Greek in the 490s, in the early years of Anastasius' reign. Zachariah's doctrinal trajectory helps to explain the coverage of his Ecclesiastical History . Another interesting Chalcedonian interpretation of doctrinal history is presented in the Breviarium causae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum of Liberatus. Keywords: Chalcedon; Church; Ecclesiastical History ; Greek; Liberatus; Zachariah
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