Politics and religion in ancient and Medieval Europe and China
By: edited by Frederick Hok-ming Cheung and Ming-chiu Lai ; with a foreword by Hok-lam Chan.
Contributors: Cheung, Frederick Hok-ming.; Lai, Ming-chiu.
Publisher: Chinese University Press, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Religion and politics -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.; Religion and politics -- China -- History -- Congresses.; Civilization, Medieval -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Selected papers from the Conference on Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and Asia held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996.
Table of contents: title: Ancient Egyptian attitudes toward foreigners / Muzhou Poo; title: Religio and Superstitio: state policy toward the mystery religions in the early Roman Empire / Yen-zen Tsai; title: On the image procession in China from the second to the sixth centuries A.D.: an interpretation of an elephant sculpture at the Kongwangshan site / Ming-chiu Lai; title: Daoism and political rebellion during the Eastern Jin Dynasty / Chi-tim Lai; title: Architecture and legitimacy in the court of Wu Zhao / Puay-peng Ho; title: Anglo-Norman political culture and the twelfth-century Renaissance / C. Warren Hollister; title: The Christian Church in the court politics of Norman England / Frederick Hok-ming Cheung.