Philip Wood (ISMC Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University (

The Chronicle of Seert

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780199670673
• ISBN-10: 0199670676
• Artikelnr.: 37314313

Autorenporträt

Philip Wood is Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University, ISMC.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the
fifth century persecutions
* 2: The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their
re-invention
* 3: The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative
* 4: The Church and the World
* 5: Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception,
adaptation and reaction
* 6: Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian
histories
* 7: The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq
* 8: The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq
* Conclusion
* Episcopal and Regnal Tables
* Synodica
* History-writing in the Church of the East
* Contents of the Chronicle of Seert
* Abbreviations
* Bibliography