The Copts and the West, 1439-1822

The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church

AvAlastair Hamilton,University of London) Hamilton, Alastair (Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, School of Advanced Study attached to the Warburg Institute

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. Now available in paperback for the first time, this first, full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West and of the uses to which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians, and Egyptologists.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-04
Mått:139 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:444 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford-Warburg Studies
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198727538

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Educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge. Taught at the University of Urbino from 1977 to 1992, Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam from1987 to 2001, and Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University from 1985 to 2005. Now Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute and General Editor of the Arcadian Series (London/Oxford). Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

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This is a book of great depth and importance that illuminates the manner in which ideas were appropriated and transmitted in early-modern Europe.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE - THE COPTS IN EGYPT; PART TWO - THE MISSIONS; PART THREE - KNOWLEDGE OF THE COPTS; PART FOUR - THE COPTIC LANGUAGE

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