Studies on the history of late antique and Christian Nubia / Sir Laurence Kirwin ; edited by T. Hägg, L. Török and D.A. Welsby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirwan, Laurence.

Contributor:

Hägg, Tomas.

Török, László, 1941-2020.

Welsby, Derek A.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS748.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

History.

Nubia--History.

Nubia.

Nubia--Antiquities.

Nubia--Religion.

Christianity--Nubia--History.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Variorum, [2002]

Contents:

I Introduction: Post-Meroitic Nubia

A Reappraisal (Unpublished manuscript, 1998) 1

II Nubia

An African Frontier Zone (Advancement of Science 19, 1962-63) 330

III Rome Beyond the Southern Egyptian Frontier (Proceedings of the British Academy 63, 1977) 13

IV The International Position of Sudan in Roman and Medieval Times (Sudan Notes and Records 40, 1959) 23

V Greek and Roman Expeditions to the Southern Sudan (J. Mack & P. Robertshaw (eds), Culture and History in the Southern Sudan. Khartoum 1982) 71

VI The Decline and Fall of Meroe (Kush 8, 1960) 163

VII An Ethiopian-Sudanese Frontier Zone in Ancient History (Geographical Journal 138, 1972) 457

VIII The 'Christian Topography' and the Kingdom of Axum (Geographical Journal 138, 1972) 166

IX A Survey of Nubian Origins (Sudan Notes and Records 20, 1937) 47

X The Problem of the Nubian X-Group (The Oxford University Excavations at Firka. London 1939) 39

XI Comments on the Origins and History of the Nobatae of Procopius (Kush 6, 1958) 69

XII The Early History of the Blemmyes (The Oxford University Excavations at Firka. London 1939) 46

XIII Tanqasi and the Noba (Kush 5, 1957) 37

XIV Aksum, Meroe, and the Ballana Civilisation (W.K. Simpson & W.M. Davis (eds), Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham. Boston 1981, pp. 115-119) 1

XV The X-Group Problem (Meroitica 6, 1982) 191

XVI A Contemporary Account of the Conversion of the Sudan to Christianity (Sudan Notes and Records 20, 1937) 289

XVII Christianity and the Kur`an (Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20, 1934) 201

XVIII Prelude to Nubian Christianity (M.-L. Bernhard (ed.), Melanges offerts a K. Michalowski. Warszawa 1966) 121

XIX The Nature of Nubian Christianity (The Oxford University Excavations at Firka. London 1939) 49

XX Some Thoughts on the Conversion of Nubia to Christianity (J.M. Plumley (ed.), Nubian Studies. Warminster 1982) 142

XXI The Birth of Christian Nubia: Some Archaeological Problems (Rivista degli Studi Orientali 58, 1984 [1987]) 119

XXII Christianity in the Central Sudan: The Byzantine Mission and Nubian Alwa (C. Berger, G. Clerc & N. Grimal (eds), Hommages a Jean Leclant 2 (Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale. Bibliotheque d'Etude 106/2). Le Caire 1994) 245

XXIII Notes on the Topography of the Christian Nubian Kingdoms (Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 21, 1935) 57

XXIV The Emergence of the United Kingdom of Nubia (Sudan Notes and Records 61, 1980) 134

XXV Studies in the Later History of Nubia (Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 24, 1937) 69

Names 1

Peoples and Places 5

Topics 12.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860788938

OCLC:

49691221