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title | : | The Barbarian Plain : Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; 28 |
author | : | Fowden, Elizabeth Key. |
publisher | : | University of California Press |
isbn10 | asin | : | 0520216857 |
print isbn13 | : | 9780520216853 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780585383873 |
language | : | English |
subject | Sargis,--Saint,--4th cent.--Cult, Rusafa (Extinct city)--Church history, Syria--Church history. , Iraq--Church history. , Christian saints. |
publication date | : | 1999 |
lcc | : | BR1720.S23F68 1999eb |
ddc | : | 270.2/092 |
subject | : | Sargis,--Saint,--4th cent.--Cult, Rusafa (Extinct city)--Church history, Syria--Church history. , Iraq--Church history. , Christian saints. |
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE
Peter Brown, General Editor
I | Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack |
II | Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman |
III | Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum |
IV | John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken |
V | Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox |
VI | Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau |
VII | Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein |
VIII | Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam |
IX | Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton |
X | Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron |
XI | Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, by Robert A. Kaster |
XII | Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180275, by Kenneth Harl |
XIII | Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
XIV | Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, by Carole Straw |
XV | "Apex Omnium": Religion in the "Res gestae" of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike |
XVI | Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull |
XVII | On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity, by Michele Renee Salzman |
XVIII | Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and "The Lives of the Eastern Saints," by Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
XIX | Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, by Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry |
XX | Basil of Caesarea, by Philip Rousseau |
XXI | In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The "Panegyrici Latini," introduction, translation, and historical commentary by C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers |
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XXII | Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, by Neil B. McLynn |
XXIII | Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity, by Richard Lim |
XXIV | The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, by Virginia Burrus |
XXV | Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City, by Derek Krueger |
XXVI | The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack |
XXVII | Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, by Dennis E. Trout |
XXVIII | The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, by Elizabeth Key Fowden |
XXIX | The Private Orations of Themistius, translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella |
XXX | The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank |
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The Barbarian Plain
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The Barbarian Plain
Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran
Elizabeth Key Fowden
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Title page image: Rusafa. Aerial view from north.
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
1999 by the Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowden, Elizabeth Key, 1964
The barbarian plain : Saint Sergius between Rome and
Iran / Elizabeth Key Fowden.
p. cm. (The transformation of the classical
heritage ; 28)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-21685-7 (alk. paper)
1. Sargis, Saint, 4th centCult. 2. Rusfa (Extinct
city)Church history. 3. SyriaChurch history.
4. IraqChurch history. I. Title. II. Series.
BR 1720.S23F68 1999
270.2'092dc21
[B] 99-22672
CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of ANSI / NISO z39.48-1992 (R 1997)
(Permanence of Paper).
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In memory of my father
R. E. Key
grandfathers
R. W. Key
K. W. Crusius
and godfather
P. O. A. Sherrard
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City built on a high mountain, which cannot be taken!
Fortress of our country, by which the whole region is protected!
Beautiful name, Sergius, which is beloved to all ears,
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