An edition of Chronicle of Zuqnin (1999)

The Chronicle of Zuqnīn, parts III and IV

A.D. 488-775 : translated from Syriac with notes and introduction

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An edition of Chronicle of Zuqnin (1999)

The Chronicle of Zuqnīn, parts III and IV

A.D. 488-775 : translated from Syriac with notes and introduction

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"The Syriac chronicle of Zuqnin features accounts of the world from its creation to the eighth century A.D.

Part III preserves much of the lost work of the late sixth-century Syriac historian, John of Ephesus, who described at length the persecution launched by the Chalcedonians against the adherents of Monophysitism; the Great Plague which broke out around the middle of the sixth century and which devastated the "whole world"; and three decades in Byzantium where he was exposed to the world of imperial and church politics at the time of Justinian (527-565).

John's early admiration for the Emperor and his subsequent frustration with him are vividly portrayed.".

"Part IV deals with the seventh and eighth centuries. The entries are more developed for the few years after 715, while the accounts dealing with the period between 767 and 775 grow very detailed, even verbose. The rapcious economic policy of the early 'Abbasid caliphs is the main theme, a policy which turned the particularly wealthy province of the Jazira (northern Syria) into ruins, due to the blatant exploitation of its human and agricultural resources."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cover of: Chronicle of Zuqnin
Chronicle of Zuqnin: A.D. 488-775 (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)
April 1999, Pontifical Inst of Medieval
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-341) and indexes.

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Toronto
Series
Mediaeval sources in translation ;, 36
Genre
Sources.

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Dewey Decimal Class
930
Library of Congress
D17 .M2513 1999

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Pagination
xvi, 388 p. :
Number of pages
388

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Open Library
OL95688M
ISBN 10
0888442866
LCCN
99207697
OCLC/WorldCat
40884100
Library Thing
3570485
Goodreads
4464005

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