Edessa: 'The Blessed City' / / J. B. Segal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Segal, J. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 73
• Other title: Frontmatter --; FORWARD --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF PLATES --; PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS --; SCHEME OF TRANSLITERATION --; INTRODUCTION --; I. THE BEGINNINGS --; II. EDESSA UNDER THE KINGS --; III. THE BLESSING OF JESUS AND THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY --; IV. LIFE AT EDESSA ,A.D.240-639 --; V. THE LAST FIVE CENTURIES, A.D. 639-1146 --; EPILOGUE --; MAPS AND PLANS --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; PLATES --; GENERAL INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463210212; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463210212
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J. B. Segal.

This book describes events at Edessa, largely through contemporary accounts and incorporates much new material, notably six mosaics found by the writer between 1952 and 1959.