Description: During the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. there arose on the Euphrates frontier, between the empires of Rome and Iran, a city girded with glittering gypsum walls. Within these walls stood a great church, a shrine for the relics of Saint Sergius, who was martyred there, at Rusafa, in the early fourth century. Around Rusafa stretched the "Barbarian Plain," inhabited by Rome's Arab allies, many of whom revered the saint. Elizabeth Key Fowden examines the rise of the cult of Sergius in late antiquity, drawing on literary accounts, inscriptions, archaeology, images, and the landscape itself to construct a many-faceted picture of the role of religion in this frontier society. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, her study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic …condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings. Former library copy. Missing dust cover.
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EAN: 9780520216853
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Number of Pages: 254 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Barbarian Plain : Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Ancient / General, Ancient / Rome, History & Theory, Antiquities & Archaeology
Publication Year: 1999
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Elizabeth Key Fowden
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage Ser.
Format: Hardcover
