The Chronicle of Seert

With an approach that broadly aligns with Rosamond McKittericks interpretation of Frankish royal annals as evidence for the Carolingian historical imagination, Woods study successfully demonstrates how the tenth-century chroniclers selfunderstanding as a member of a religious minority gave expression to a Christian historical imagination in the East that is just as fascinating and worthy of study as that of his Latin Christian cousins in the West.

Vorwort
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Autorentext
Philip Wood is Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University, ISMC.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This monograph uses a medieval Arabic chronicle, the Chronicle of Seert, as a window into the Christian history of Iraq. The Chronicle describes events that are unknown from other sources, but it is most useful for what it tells us about the changing agendas of those who wrote history and their audiences in the period c.400-800. By splitting the Chronicle into its constituent layers, Philip Wood presents a rich cultural history of Iraq. He examines the Christians' self-presentation as a church of the martyrs and the uncomfortable reality of close engagement with the Sasanian state. The history of the past was used as a source of solidarity in the present, to draw together disparate Christian communities. But it also represented a means of criticising figures in the present, whether these be secular rulers or over-mighty bishops and abbots. The Chronicle gives us an insight into the development of an international awareness within the church in Iraq. Christians increasingly raised their horizons to the Roman Empire in the West, which offered a model of Christian statehood, while also being the source of resented theological innovation or heresy. It also shows us the competing strands of patronage within the church: between laymen and clergy; church and state; centre and periphery. Building on earlier scholarship rooted in the contemporary Syriac sources, Wood complements that picture with the testimony of this later witness.

Inhalt
Introduction
1: Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the fifth century persecutions
2: The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their re-invention
3: The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative
4: The Church and the World
5: Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, adaptation and reaction
6: Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories
7: The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq
8: The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq
Conclusion
Episcopal and Regnal Tables
Synodica
History-writing in the Church of the East
Contents of the Chronicle of Seert
Abbreviations
Bibliography

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