Council Acts Gathered and Organized

Abstract

The protocols of individual sessions are gathered into larger units by the council’s secretaries, bringing together the records of several sessions. A frequent (but not the only) form of textual organization is the gathering of case files. The case of Eutyches’ trial allows the reconstruction of the material shape of the relevant file and the cohesion of separate minutes in one physical document. Internal textual signals for cross-referencing and interlacing such units are uncovered that support and expand these observations. The case of Cyril of Alexandria at Ephesus I singularly shows directly the president’s own initiative to have a record combining physically the minutes of a number of sessions made.