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Chronicle of Seert
Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq

English · Hardback

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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.


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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.

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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.

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