Berkeley: University of California Press, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Text block is very mildly damp-rippled; scholarly pencil marks and small notes throughout; else overall very good thus in near fine jacket. Minor bumping to upper board edge./near fine. Small quaerto in color illus pale green and yellow jacket; xix, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 193-217) and index. Contents: 1. Portraits of a Martyr -- The Passio of SS. Sergius and Bacchus -- History in the Passio: The Emperor -- The Hagiographic Milieu -- Alexander of Hierapolis and the Early Cult of S. Sergius -- Images of S. Sergius -- 2. Martyr Cult on the Frontier: The Case of Mayperqat -- Relics and Defense -- At the World's Center -- The Ecumenical City of Martyrs -- The Iranian Viewpoint -- 3. Rusafa -- The Frontier Zone -- A Place of Convergence -- The Fortress-Shrine -- Pilgrimage to Rusafa -- 4. The Spread of the Sergius Cult in Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Hawran -- West of the Steppe -- Northern Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Iranian Empire -- 5. Frontier Shrine and Frontier Saint -- Justinian, Theodora, and S. Sergius -- Iranian Interest in S. Sergius -- The Ghassanid Confederation -- al-Mundhir -- 6. The Cult of S. Sergius after the Islamic Conquest -- Umayyad Rusafa -- Rusafa after Hisham -- Between East and West -- Between Christianity and Islam. // l Cults. Vroege kerk. Islam. Heiligenverering. Christian saints -- Syria -- Rusafa -- 4th century. Christian ...

ISBN10: 0520216857, ISBN13: 9780520216853, [publisher: University of California Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1999 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 254 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 28.

ISBN10: 0520216857, ISBN13: 9780520216853, [publisher: University of California Press] Hardcover Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion s place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christia.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]
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