Barbarian Plain - Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran

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About the author

Elizabeth Key Fowden is a Research Fellow at the Center for Greek and Roman Antiquity in Athens, Greece.

Summary

Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Key Fowden, Fowden Elizabeth Key
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Key Fowden (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1999
• EAN: 9780520216853
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21685-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage; Transformation of the Classica; Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, Religion: general, Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Political science and theory