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UNISA996205834003316 |
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Titolo |
History and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip Wood |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-991541-5 |
0-19-991540-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in late antiquity |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics |
Middle East Civilization Congresses |
Middle East Antiquities Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This volume arose out of a seminar series organised at the Classics Centre of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and a subsequent workshop in 2010. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Sophronius of Jerusalem and the end of roman history / Phil Booth -- Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century / Tara Andrews -- The chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world / Philip Wood -- Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? / Dan King -- You are what you read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite church in the seventh century / Jack Tannous -- The prophet's city before the prophet: Ibn Zabala (d. after 199/814) on pre-Islamic Medina / Harry Munt -- Topoi and topography in the histories of al-?ira / Adam Talib -- "The crinkly haired people of the black earth"; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'abd al-?akam's futu? / Hussein Omar -- Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's pre-Islamic past, ca. 800-1100 / Sarah Savant -- Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids / Mathiew Tillier. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-writing' in a narrow sense to examine philosophy, theology, liturgy and jurisprudence as vehicles for tradition and the imagination of a past 'golden age'. The papers straddle the Roman-Persian frontier and go well into the Islamic period: together, |
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