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

• Autore: Wood Philip
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 295 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.7095690201
• Soggetto topico: Christianity and politics - History - To 1500 - Middle East; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Christianity
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Church history; Middle East History To 622; Byzantine Empire Politics and government
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: We have no king but Christ
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213128403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford studies in Byzantium.