Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity
Title | Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Loosley Leeming |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004375317 |
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints to try and explore the relationship as thoroughly as possible. Taking the Georgian belief that ‘Thirteen Syrian Fathers’ introduced monasticism to the country in the sixth century as a starting point, this volume explores the evidence for trade, cultural and religious relations between Syria and the Kingdom of Kartli (what is now eastern Georgia) between the fourth and seventh centuries CE. It considers whether there is any evidence to support the medieval texts and tries to place this posited relationship within a wider regional context.
Architecture and Asceticism
Title | Architecture and Asceticism PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Loosley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN | 9789004373631 |
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints.
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch
Title | Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Parker |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2022-07-07 |
Genre | Antioch (Turkey) |
ISBN | 019286517X |
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about the powers of holy men came into conflict with undeniable evidence of their failures, and explores how holy men and their supporters responded to this. The work takes as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the local area, which, in the sixth century, experienced plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion. Through an examination of Symeon's own writings, as well as his hagiographic biography, it reveals that the stylite was a divisive figure who played upon social tensions and upon culturally sensitive areas such as paganism to carve out a role for himself as prophet and spiritual authority in the face of considerable opposition. It sets Symeon's life and cult in the context of Antioch and eastern Roman society, offering a new perspective on the state of the empire in the period before the rise of Islam. It argues that hagiography is an exceptionally rich source for the historian, offering insights into debates and tensions which reached to the heart of Christianity.
STEALING FROM THE SARACENS
Title | STEALING FROM THE SARACENS PDF eBook |
Author | DIANA. DARKE |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1911723472 |
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context
Title | Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-02-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004505253 |
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity constitutes an exceptional religious tradition flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa already since late antiquity. The volume places Ethiopian Orthodoxy into a global context and explores the various ways in which it has been interconnected with the wider Christian world from the Aksumite period until today. By highlighting the formative role of both wide-ranging translocal religious interactions as well as disruptions thereof, the contributors challenge the perception of this African Christian tradition as being largely isolated in the course of its history. Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa’s Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity.
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
Title | Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus PDF eBook |
Author | Galina M. Yemelianova |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 485 |
Release | 2020-03-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351055607 |
The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus offers an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the historical, ethno-linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and political complexities of the Caucasus. Covering both the North and South Caucasus, the book gathers together leading Western, Caucasian and Russian scholars of the region from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Following a thorough introduction by the editors, the handbook is divided into six parts which combine thematic and chronological principles: Place, peoples and culture Political history The contemporary Caucasus: politics, economics and societies Conflict and political violence The Caucasus in the wider world Societal and cultural dynamics. This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Russian and Eastern-European studies, Eurasian history and politics, and religious and Islamic studies.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Louth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 4474 |
Release | 2022-02-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0192638157 |
Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; other church leaders; saints; and mystics. In this new edition, great efforts have been made to increase and strengthen coverage of non-Anglican denominations (for example non-Western European Christianity), as well as broadening the focus on Christianity and the history of churches in areas beyond Western Europe. In particular, there have been extensive additions with regards to the Christian Church in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Australasia. Significant updates have also been included on topics such as liturgy, Canon Law, recent international developments, non-Anglican missionary activity, and the increasingly important area of moral and pastoral theology, among many others. Since its first appearance in 1957, the ODCC has established itself as an essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, and an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.