Author: Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 390
Book Description
Bulletin de l'Institut français de Washington
Author: Bulletin
Author: Institut français de Washington (D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
News from the Center
Author: Center for the Coordination of Foreign Manuscript Copying (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Union Catalog of Serials Currently Received in the Libraries of the University of Wisconsin--Madison
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology
Author: Albert HassellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Department of State Publication
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Barbarian Plain
Author: Elizabeth Key FowdenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520922204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book 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 calculations of hostile empires. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the surviving accounts of the martyrdom of Sergius, Fowden provides a discussion of Syrian Rusafa-Sergiopolis, traces the spread of the Sergius cult in Syria and Mesopotamia, and provides a provocative interpretation of the relation between the saint's presence at Rusafa and his role in frontier defense. She also discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East, as well as the continuation of the Sergius tradition after the Muslim conquest, emphasizing the changes and continuities brought by the rise of Islam.
America's French Heritage
Author: Jacques Donat CasanovaPublisher: Documentation française ; [Quebec, Quebec] : Québec Official Publisher
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Index-catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology
Author: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry. Zoological DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description