Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine
Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine

Author: Cornelia B. Horn

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006-03-09

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0199277532

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The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma, Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the history of the conflict in Palestine and analyses the formative period of fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy, theology, and its ascetic expression. Important themes are pilgrimage as an ascetic ideal and asceticism assource of theological authority. Archaeological data on many places in the Levant and textual sources in Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian are examined. This book contributes to our understanding of the origins of anti-Chalcedonian theology and the influence of asceticism on its development, theChristian topography of the Levant, and the history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine.

Inventing Slavonic
Inventing Slavonic

Author: Mirela Ivanova

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-02-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0198891504

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In this meticulously researched study, Mirela Ivanova offers a new critical history of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet. Showing how the alphabet was not invented once, but rather continually contested and redefined in the century following its creation, Ivanova challenges the prevalent nationalist historiography that has built up around it.