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Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi´an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East
Todd Godwin
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Hardcover. The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1FPC; HBLC1; HRAX; HRCC1; RGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258). Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and ... Read more
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258). Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784538804
SKU
V9781784538804
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99-10
About Todd Godwin
Todd Godwin received his PhD from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, and now lectures at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK and the Classical Language Learning Resource Centre, Idaho. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on the early medieval Church of the East.
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