The Chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq

The Chronicle of Seert Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq

IntroductionCollaborators and dissidents: writing the hagiographies of the fifth-century persecutions -- The martyrs and the catholicos: the Acts of the Symeon and their reinvention -- The patriarchal histories: genesis of a centralizing narrative -- The church and the world -- Roman ecclesiastical...

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1. Verfasser: Wood, Philip (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:The Oxford early Christian studies
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Church of the East > Historiography > Chronique de Séert > Iraq > Church history > Chronik von Seert > Mesopotamien > Irak > Ostkirche
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Zusammenfassung:IntroductionCollaborators and dissidents: writing the hagiographies of the fifth-century persecutions -- The martyrs and the catholicos: the Acts of the Symeon and their reinvention -- The patriarchal histories: genesis of a centralizing narrative -- The church and the world -- Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world: reception, adaptation, and reaction -- Beyond Ctesiphon: monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories -- The last great war of antiquity: the reaction of Christian Iraq -- The Church of Baghdad: a new past for Christian Iraq -- Conclusions -- Episcopal and regnal lists -- Synods of the Church of the East -- History-writing in the Church of the East -- Contents of the Chronicle of Seert
This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD
This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XIV, 305 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:9780199670673
978-0-19-967067-3