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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 Romes 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 religions 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 saints 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.

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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
subjectSargis,--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 Page iv Title page image Rusafa Aerial view from - photo 2

Elizabeth Key Fowden

Page iv Title page image Rusafa Aerial view from north University of - photo 3

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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
08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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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