Cities of Learning: The Intellectual Revolutions of Byzantine Palestine (Third to Early Seventh Century)

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century

JOHN BISHOP OF NIKIOU’S CHRONICON (SEVENTH CENTURY A.D.): AN INDISPENSABLE SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ARAB CONQUEST OF EGYPT AND ITS AFTERMATH*

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 748-768
Author(s):  
V. Christides
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Local People ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Coptic Church

John, Bishop of Nikiou’s Chronicon is the oldest preserved work dealing with the Arab conquest of Egypt (639 A.D./H. 18–645 A.D./H. 25) and its initial aftermath. This little known author, who lived in Egypt in the seventh century, was a high official in the Coptic Church. His accurate depiction of all the relevant historical events, based mainly on his own remarkable observations, proves him to be a simple but well–balanced historian. My article focuses on three aspects of the Chronicon: (a) landholding under the early years of Arab dominion compared to the parallel information of the Greek papyri of Apollonopolis in a special appendix; (b) the attitude of the Arab conquerors of Egypt towards its population, and the reaction of the local people as perceived by John, Bishop of Nikiou; and (c) a short account on the elusive role of the Blues and Greens during the Arab conquest of Egypt as recorded by John of Nikiou.

Seventh Century Judean Historiography : The Pentateuch

Canon&Culture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century

Columbanus and the Mission to the Bavarians and the Slavs in the Seventh Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century

In the Vita Columbani Jonas of Bobbio convinced his audience that Columbanus was the spiritus rector of the mission to the Bavarians and Slavs in the seventh century. But Columbanus twice turned down missionary activities he had originally or allegedly pursued. When he and his followers reached Bregenz he became involved almost against his will in converting Alemanns. In a vision he gladly accepted angelic advice to leave the Slavic world alone. Nevertheless, Columbanus’s disciple Eustasius of Luxeuil launched a very successful mission to Bavaria and probably founded the oldest Bavarian monastery on Herrenchiemsee. The Slavs still did not know what to do with Western missionaries, deeply frustrating Saint Amandus,whom they did not even care to kill. It took another Irishman, Virgil of Salzburg, to organize the mission to the Carantanians, who became the first Christianized Slavonic people.

Orthodoxy and Authority

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Internal Conflicts

The fight against religious deviance and heresy was among the missionary activities of Columbanus’s followers, but the struggle for orthodoxy was also a problem the community had to face, most notably during the Agrestius affair after his death. In 626 Eustasius of Luxeuil had to answer charges of religious deviance at a council in Mâcon. In the end, the abbot of Luxeuil and his counterpart were forced to reconcile, but the conflict still smoldered. This chapter sheds light on the tensions between the missions among the gentes and the role of allegations of heresy in the internal conflicts of the Columbanian community in the 620s against the backdrop of the wider worries about orthodoxy in the seventh century. It also addresses the textual dimension of the issue and tries to illuminate the reasons for how Jonas of Bobbio presents Eustasius and the Agrestius affair in the Vita Columbani.

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