The chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood.
Wood, Philip, 1982- author.
2013
BX153.3 .W66 2013eb
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Title
The chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood.
Author
Wood, Philip, 1982- author.
ISBN
9780191760709 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670673
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : map.
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670673 doi
Call Number
BX153.3 .W66 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
275.6702
Summary
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.
Note
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Open access.
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Series
Oxford early Christian studies.
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Introduction
Collaborators 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

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