. . . there may also have been a session to
approve the other 27 canons; there is no reference to such a session, but the
emperor had asked for one when he himself attended the session at which the Definition
was formally proclaimed (VI. 6). (Richard Price, “Truth Omission, and Fiction
in the Acts of Chalcedon,” in Richard Price and Mary Whitby, eds., Chalcedon
in Context: Church Councils 400-700 [Translated Texts for Historians,
Contexts 1; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009], 92-106, here, p. 99)
Price and Gaddis [The Acts of the Council of
Chalcedon] III, 92-93 suggest that no such session took place, and that the
canons were simply issued by Anatolius in the council’s name; but I think now
that I failed to give sufficient weight to Marcian’s instructions and that
there must have been some meeting of the bishops to rubber-stamp the canons.
(Ibid., 99 n. 19)
