Research Catalog

Title

The Chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood.

Author

Wood, Philip, 1982-

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xiv, 305 pages : map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford early Christian studies

Uniform Title

Oxford early Christian studies.

Subjects

• Iraq > Church history > Historiography
• Chronique de Séert
• Church of the East Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-297) and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 13-7360

ISBN

• 9780199670673
• 0199670676

OCLC

827777642

Author

Wood, Philip, 1982-

Title

The Chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford early Christian studies

Oxford early Christian studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-297) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-7360