Chronicle of Seert - Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the fifth century persecutions


• 2: The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their re-invention


• 3: The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative


• 4: The Church and the World


• 5: Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, adaptation and reaction


• 6: Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories


• 7: The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq


• 8: The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq


• Conclusion


• Episcopal and Regnal Tables


• Synodica


• History-writing in the Church of the East


• Contents of the Chronicle of Seert


• Abbreviations


• Bibliography

About the author

Philip Wood is Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University, ISMC.

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.

Foreword

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Additional text

With an approach that broadly aligns with Rosamond McKittericks interpretation of Frankish royal annals as evidence for the Carolingian historical imagination, Woods study successfully demonstrates how the tenth-century chroniclers selfunderstanding as a member of a religious minority gave expression to a Christian historical imagination in the East that is just as fascinating and worthy of study as that of his Latin Christian cousins in the West.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Wood, Philip (Assistant Professor At the Aga Khan Wood, Philip (Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University Wood, Wood Philip
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199670673
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967067-3
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, The Early Church