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Record Nr.

UNISA996213128403316

Autore

Wood Philip

Titolo

"We have no king but Christ" : Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c. 400-585) / / Philip Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 295 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in Byzantium 'We have no king but Christ'

Disciplina

261.7095690201

Soggetti

Christianity and politics - History - To 1500 - Middle East

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Middle East Church history

Middle East History To 622

Byzantine Empire Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Classification in a Christian empire -- Controlling the barbarians. The first Syrian Hagiographic collection -- Theories of nations and the world of late antiquity -- Edessa and beyond. The reception of the Doctrina Addai in the fifth and sixth centuries -- The Julian romance -- Crating boundaries in the Miaphysite movement -- A Miaphysite commonwealth.

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of how, at the close of the Roman Empire Christianity influenced the political and social philosophy of the peoples of the Near East, laying the groundwork for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we see in the Middle East today.