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Author Wood, Philip, 1982-

Title The chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : map (black and white)
Series Oxford early Christian studies
Oxford early Christian studies.
Contents 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
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
Analysis Arabic
Bishops
East-West contact
Historiography
Iraq
Late Antiquity
Nestorian
Orthodoxy
Persecution
Sasanian
Syriac
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013)
Subject Church of the East.
SUBJECT Church of the East fast
Chronique de Séert. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010003297
Chronique de Séert fast
Subject Asian history.
Christian Churches and denominations.
Christianity.
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
History.
History: earliest times to present day.
Humanities.
Middle Eastern history.
Regional and national history.
Religion and beliefs.
The Early Church.
Historiography
SUBJECT Iraq -- Church history -- Historiography
Iraq -- Church history
Subject Iraq
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780191760709
0191760706
1299794599
9781299794597