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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Philip, 1982- author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies.

Oxford early Christian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of the East.

Chronique de Séert.

History.

Iraq--Church history--Historiography.

Iraq.

Iraq--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : map; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record and e-publication (viewed on July 24, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).

ISBN:

9780191649660

019164966X

9780199670673

0199670676

OCLC:

922972451

Publisher Number:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670673.001.0001