“Eusebius made the direct quotation of documents, literary and archival, a central feature of his history of the church. This became a lasting characteristic, one that sharply distinguished ecclesiastical from civil history, which usually took the form of a narrative uninterrupted by direct quotations” (Grafton & Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea, 200).