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200 14$aThe Copts and the West, 1439-1822$b[electronic resource] $ethe European discovery of the Egyptian church /$fAlastair Hamilton
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (355 p.)
225 1 $aOxford-Warburg studies
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-313) and index.
327   $aAn ancient church -- Muslim domination -- The Council of Florence -- The first Jesuit mission -- New approaches -- Towards a Coptic Catholic Church -- The first steps -- Confessional clashes I -- Confessional clashes II -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- Protestants and the Enlightenment -- Athanasius Kircher and his shadow -- Grammars, dictionaries, and dialects -- Manuscript collecting -- Biblical studies.
330   $aThis first full study of the subject discusses how 17C Catholic missionaries tried to force the Copts (Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria) into union with the Church of Rome, and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. Includes a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West. - ;In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hierogly
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