The Barbarian Plain
Subtitle: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780520216853
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; BCE to c 500 CE; Medieval Church (476-1517); History - General History; History: World; ASIA; Ancient Rome; Ancient World; Ancient - Rome; History; History / Ancient / General; Ancient - General; Christianity - History - General; 4th cent; Church history; Cult; Rusafa (Extinct city); Saint,; Sargis,; Syria
First sentence: Not long before 431, Bishop Alexander of Hierapolis/Manbij in northern Syria invested three hundred pounds of gold to build a church in the middle of the Syrian steppe, a region he himself described as a wilderness.
Description: xix, 227 pages : 24 cm