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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Philip, 1982-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
Subjects:
Chronique de Séert.
Church of the East.
Church of the East
Chronique de Séert
Iraq > Church history > Historiography.
Iraq > Church history.
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
Iraq
Arabic
Bishops
East-West contact
Late Antiquity
Nestorian
Orthodoxy
Persecution
Sasanian
Syriac
Electronic books.
Church history
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : map (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191760709
0191760706
1299794599
9781299794597