The Chronicle of Seert
| Titel: | The Chronicle of Seert : Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq |
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| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780199670673 |
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- Preface
- p. ix
- Notes on Transliteration and Terminology
- p. xi
- Map
- p. xii
- Abbreviations
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- The Chronicle of Seert
- p. 2
- Approaching the Chronicle
- p. 4
- Trusting the Chronicle
- p. 6
- The Texture of the Chronicle
- p. 9
- Structures of the Sasanian State
- p. 13
- Religion and the Sasanian State
- p. 19
- Geography of a Christian Minority
- p. 22
- Babylonia
- p. 23
- Khuzistan
- p. 25
- Assyria
- p. 26
- 1
- Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the Hagiographies of the Fifth-century Persecutions
- p. 31
- The 410 Synod of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
- p. 32
- The War of 421 and the New Persecutions
- p. 37
- The Martyrs of Yazdegard and Vahram
- p. 39
- Abgar's Cycle: Loyalty and Persecution
- p. 44
- The Vandals Remembered
- p. 48
- Conclusions
- p. 50
- 2
- The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and Their Reinvention
- p. 52
- The Relic Cult and the Invention of History
- p. 52
- Symeon bar SebbaÆe: Martyr for a Christian People
- p. 55
- Developing the Acts of Symeon: Authority and the Catholicos
- p. 57
- The Acts of Symeon and the Control of History
- p. 60
- Conclusions
- p. 64
- 3
- The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a Centralizing Narrative
- p. 66
- The Medieval Compilations: Bar Hebraeus, Mari, and æAmr
- p. 67
- The Medieval Compilations: The Chronicle of Seert and the Haddad Chronicle
- p. 70
- Acacius' History
- p. 71
- The Fifth Century in the Acacian History
- p. 74
- The School of 'Abda
- p. 75
- Miles and Papas: The Council of DadishoÆ
- p. 78
- Miles and Papas: The Reconstructions of the Histories
- p. 84
- Papas and Demetrianus: Histories of Exile and the Rights of Gundishapur
- p. 87
- Conclusions
- p. 91
- 4
- The Church and the World
- p. 93
- Clerical Reform: Acacius and Barsauma
- p. 95
- Clerical Reform: Narsai, Elishe, and the History of a Crisis
- p. 100
- The School of Nisibis: Barsauma, Acacius, and Christology
- p. 106
- The School of Nisibis: Nisibene Theology in Ctesiphon
- p. 108
- The Church and the Shahs: Seeking Favour
- p. 112
- Conclusions
- p. 118
- 5
- Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, Adaptation, and Reaction
- p. 120
- The Expansion in History-writing
- p. 121
- The Identity of the Ecclesiastical Historians
- p. 122
- A New Roman Past
- p. 124
- The Dyophysite Fathers and the Reception of the Fifth-century Histories
- p. 125
- Isho'yahb I and the Incorporation of Roman Ecclesiastical History
- p. 128
- Nisibis and the Dyophysite History of Barhadbeshaba
- p. 131
- Chalcedon in the Church of the East
- p. 134
- The Anti-Chalcedon Tradition
- p. 135
- A Nestorian Church
- p. 140
- Conclusions
- p. 142
- 6
- Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and Aristocrats in the Christian Histories
- p. 143
- Abrahamic Monasticism at Izla
- p. 146
- Monasticism after the Henanian Crisis
- p. 149
- The Hagiographic Collections: The Book of Chastity
- p. 150
- The Book of the Governors
- p. 153
- Authority and Conflict in the Accounts of Babai the Great
- p. 156
- Monastic Hagiography in the Chronicle of Seert: The Catholicoi and the Jacobites
- p. 160
- Monastic Foundations and Iranian Aristocracy
- p. 163
- Local Hagiographies and Iranian Patrons
- p. 166
- Iranian Histories and Christian Authors: The Acts of Mar Qardagh
- p. 169
- Iranian Histories in the Chronicle of Seert
- p. 171
- Conclusions
- p. 174
- 7
- The Last Great War of Antiquity: The Reaction of Christian Iraq
- p. 176
- The Great War between Rome and Persia
- p. 177
- Historiography of the Great War
- p. 181
- Narrative Families in the History of the Great War
- p. 184
- Khusrau and the Christians
- p. 188
- The Life of SabrishoÆ
- p. 189
- NuÆman and SabrishoÆ
- p. 192
- The Election of SabrishoÆ
- p. 194
- Christians in a Time of War: The Invasion of Dara
- p. 196
- Christians in a Time of War: Khusrau and the Miaphysites
- p. 199
- Gregory of Nisibis
- p. 202
- Gregory and the Sack of Nisibis
- p. 204
- The Election of Gregory of Pherat (605-9)
- p. 206
- Rivals and Successors: Christian Political Ideas after 612
- p. 210
- The Fall of Jerusalem in the Khuzistan Chronicle
- p. 211
- The Fall of Jerusalem in Antiochos Strategos
- p. 213
- The Murder of Khusrau
- p. 215
- The Reign of Shahrbaraz
- p. 218
- Conclusions
- p. 219
- 8
- The Church of Baghdad: A New Past for Christian Iraq
- p. 221
- An Indian Summer
- p. 222
- The Catholicoi and the Arabs
- p. 224
- Writing Christian History under Arab Rule
- p. 229
- Tales of Constantine
- p. 232
- An Expanding Church
- p. 236
- A New History of Monasticism: The Nestorians in the West
- p. 241
- Remembering Muhammad: Taxation and Narratives of Surrender
- p. 243
- Remembering Muhammad: The Histories of Najran
- p. 249
- Remembering Muhammad: Christians, Jews, and Muslims
- p. 253
- Conclusions
- p. 255
- Conclusions
- p. 257
- Episcopal and Regnal Lists
- p. 262
- Synods of the Church of the East
- p. 265
- History-writing in the Church of the East
- p. 266
- Contents of the Chronicle of Seert
- p. 268
- Bibliography
- p. 274
- Index
- p. 299
