The chronicle of Seert : : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / / Philip Wood.

• Superior document: Oxford early Christian studies
• VerfasserIn: Wood, Philip, 1982-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford early Christian studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :; map; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record and e-publication (viewed on July 24, 2019).

This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Collaborators and dissidents: writing the hagiographies of the fifth-century persecutions -- The martyrs and the catholicos: the Acts of the Symeon and their reinvention -- The patriarchal histories: genesis of a centralizing narrative -- The church and the world -- Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world: reception, adaptation, and reaction -- Beyond Ctesiphon: monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories -- The last great war of antiquity: the reaction of Christian Iraq -- The Church of Baghdad: a new past for Christian Iraq -- Conclusions -- Episcopal and regnal lists -- Synods of the Church of the East -- History-writing in the Church of the East -- Contents of the Chronicle of Seert