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History as a science --- Ancient history --- Iraq --- Assyrisch-Babylonisch (Taal) -- Teksten --- Assyrisch-Babylonische teksten --- Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions --- Assyro-Babylonian language -- Texts --- Assyro-Babylonian texts --- Assyro-babylonien (Langue) -- Textes --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Cuneiform tablets --- Inscripties in spijkerschrift --- Inscriptions [Assyrian] --- Inscriptions [Babylonian] --- Inscriptions [Behistun] --- Inscriptions [Cuneiform] --- Inscriptions assyriennnes --- Inscriptions babyloniennes --- Inscriptions cunéiformes --- Kleitabletten met spijkerschrift --- Opschriften [Assyrische ] --- Opschriften [Babylonische ] --- Opschriften in spijkerschrift --- Spijkerschrifttabletten --- Tablets [Cuneiform ] --- Tabletten [Spijkerschrift] --- Tablettes cunéiformes --- Textes assyro-babyloniens --- Cuneiform tablets. --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Irak --- History --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Sources --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- Tablettes cunéiformes --- Inscriptions cunéiformes --- Tablets, Cuneiform --- Clay tablets --- Cuneiform writing --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- To 634 --- Iraq - History - To 634 - Sources --- Iraq - History - To 634 - Historiography

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During the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. there arose on the Euphrates frontier, between the empires of Rome and Iran, a city girded with glittering gypsum walls. Within these walls stood a great church, a shrine for the relics of Saint Sergius, who was martyred there, at Rusafa, in the early fourth century. Around Rusafa stretched the "Barbarian Plain," inhabited by Rome's Arab allies, many of whom revered the saint. Elizabeth Key Fowden examines the rise of the cult of Sergius in late antiquity, drawing on literary accounts, inscriptions, archaeology, images, and the landscape itself to construct a many-faceted picture of the role of religion in this frontier society. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, her study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires.Beginning with a detailed analysis of the surviving accounts of the martyrdom of Sergius, Fowden provides a discussion of Syrian Rusafa-Sergiopolis, traces the spread of the Sergius cult in Syria and Mesopotamia, and provides a provocative interpretation of the relation between the saint's presence at Rusafa and his role in frontier defense. She also discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East, as well as the continuation of the Sergius tradition after the Muslim conquest, emphasizing the changes and continuities brought by the rise of Islam.

Sargis, --- Cult --- Rusafa (Extinct city) --- Syria --- Iraq --- Church history --- Cult. --- Church history. --- 235.3 SERGIUS --- 281.81 --- 281.81 Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- Hagiografie--SERGIUS --- Sargis Saint --- -Cult --- -Syria --- Rusafa (Ancient city) --- Antiquities --- Rusafa (Ville ancienne) --- Syrie --- Irak --- Histoire religieuse --- Sargis Zōravar, --- Sarkis, --- Sergius, --- Sergius --- Rusfa (Extinct city) --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Sargis, - Saint, - 4th cent - Cult --- Rusafa (Extinct city) - Church history --- Syria - Church history --- Iraq - Church history --- Sargis, - Saint, - 4th cent