The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 Ce)

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-429-2604-2
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 390 Seiten, Gewicht: 1070 g

Reihe: Late Antique History and Relig

In The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) Wendy Mayer and

Pauline Allen for the first time draw together all of the existing

evidence concerning the Christian worship sites of this influential

late-antique city, with significantly new results in a number of cases.

In addition to providing a catalogue of the worship sites, in which each

entry critiques and summarizes the available data, supplemented by

photographs from the excavations, the authors analyze the data from a

number of perspectives. These include the political, economic and

natural forces that influenced the construction, alteration and

reconstruction of churches and martyria, and the political, liturgical

and social use and function of these buildings. Among the results is an

emerging awareness of the extent of the lacunae and biases in the

sources, and of the influence of these on interpretation of the city’s

churches in the past. What also rises to the fore is the significant

role played by the schisms within the Christian community that dominated

the city’s landscape for much of these centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, P.

Mayer, W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein