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The Christians of Phrygia from Rome to the Turkish conquest
Title
The Christians of Phrygia from Rome to the Turkish conquest / by Stephen Mitchell.
ISBN
9789004546370
9004546375
9789004546387
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Physical Description
xxiv, 698 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"The towns and villages of Phrygia, a predominantly rural region of inner Asia Minor, provide richer documentation of their early Christian communities than any other part of the Roman empire. This includes the earliest lengthy Christian funerary text, coin types depicting Noah and the Flood introduced by Christians at the Phrygian emporium of Apamea, the famous 'Christians for Christians' inscriptions, and more than a hundred other pre-Constantinian grave monuments, The abundant evidence for the Christian presence up the Turkish invasions throws new light on continuity between Late Antiquity and the Middle Byzantine period, and on the warfare between the Byzantines and Turks in the 11th century. This is the first exhaustive regional study since 1897"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Mitchell, Stephen, 1948- Christians of Phrygia from Rome to the Turkish conquest Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2024
Series
Early Christianity in Asia Minor (ECAM) ; v. 4
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 117
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Second-Century Prelude. 1.1. Smyrna ; 1.2. Lyon ; 1.3. The New Prophecy
2. Phrygia
The Land and Its Peoples. 2.1. The Phrygian Circle: A Land-locked Geography ; 2.2. In and Out of Phrygia: Roads and Routes ; 2.3. People and Settlements
3. Phrygia's Pagan Sanctuaries. 3.1. A Religious Land ; 3.2. Zeus Cults in Northern Phrygia ; 3.3. The Pantheon and Other Phrygian Divinities ; 3.4. Major Sanctuaries of Southern Phrygia
4. Christianity in Phrygia in the Long Third Century (180-330). 4.1. Introduction ; 4.2. Avircius Marcellus and the Phrygian Pentapolis ; 4.3. Reckoning with God: The Eumeneian Formula ; 4.4. Apamea, Eumeneia and Acmonia ; 4.5. The Lawyer, the Preacher and a Guardian Angel: A Tale from Eumeneia ; 4.6. Western Phrygia and The Myso-Lydian Borderland ; 4.7. Aezani and North-West Phrygia ; 4.8. The Upper Tembris Valley ; 4.9. Cotiaeum and the Adjuration 'Do No Wrong' ; 4.10. Contextualising the Christians of the Upper Tembris Valley ; 4.11. The Phrygian Highlands, Nacolea and Dorylaeum ; 4.12. Central and Eastern Phrygia from Synnada to Amorium ; 4.13. Phrygia Paroreius: Philomelium, Pisidian Antioch and Apollonia ; 4.14. Overview
5. Established Christianity from the Fourth to the Eleventh Century. 5.1. Ekklesia ; 5.2. Early Church Building in Central Anatolia ; 5.3. Church Building in the Aezanitis ; 5.4. North-West Phrygia ; 5.5. Cotiaeum and Its Territory ; 5.6. The Upper Tembris Valley ; 5.7. Meiros and the Phrygian Highlands ; 5.8. Dorylaeum ; 5.9. Nacolea and Orcistus ; 5.10. Amorium and Phytea ; 5.11. Docimium, Akroinos, Prymnessus and Polybotus ; 5.12. The Reckoning with Paganism in Northern Phrygia ; 5.13. Sebaste, Acmonia, and Dioclea ; 5.14. Kidyessos ; 5.15. Western Phrygia: Temenothyrae to Dionysupolis ; 5.16. Choma, Eumeneia and Apamea ; 5.17. Sozopolis (Apollonia) and Antioch ; 5.18. Philomelium and Hadrianopolis ; 5.19. The Phrygian Pentapolis ; 5.20. Metropolis and Synnada ; 5.21. Chronology and Continuity in Phrygia's Byzantine Inscriptions
6. Phrygian Saints. 6.1. Phrygian Hagiography ; 6.2. Trophimos and Marina: Metropolitan Martyrs ; 6.3. Aberkios and Ariadne: Small-town Entertainers ; 6.4. Tryphon and Menas: Invention and Plagiarism ; 6.5. Agapetos of Synaos, a Priest in a Dark-age Parish ; 6.6. Hagiographic Credibility ; 6.7. St Michael: Beyond Description
7. Heretics, Schisms and Dissenters. 7.1. The Montanists in Later Antiquity ; 7.2. The Novatians ; 7.3. Sabbatianoi, Tessareskaidekatitai and the Date of Easter
8. The Development of Christianity in Phrygia. 8.1. How and When did Christianity Reach Phrygia? ; 8.2. The Early Growth in Christian Numbers ; 8.3. Jews and Christians ; 8.4. Coming Out Christian ; 8.5. From the Third Century to Byzantium ; 8.6. Constantinople and Phrygia.
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