With an approach that broadly aligns with Rosamond McKittericks interpretation of Frankish royal annals as evidence for the Carolingian historical imagination, Woods study successfully demonstrates how the tenth-century chroniclers selfunderstanding as a member of a religious minority gave expression to a Christian historical imagination in the East that is just as fascinating and worthy of study as that of his Latin Christian cousins in the West.

• Introduction ; 1. Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the fifth century persecutions ; 2. The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their re-invention ; 3. The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative ; 4. The Church and the World ; 5. Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, adaptation and reaction ; 6. Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories ; 7. The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq ; 8. The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq ; Conclusion ; Episcopal and Regnal Tables ; Synodica ; History-writing in the Church of the East ; Contents of the Chronicle of Seert ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography

With an approach that broadly aligns with Rosamond McKittericks interpretation of Frankish royal annals as evidence for the Carolingian historical imagination, Woods study successfully demonstrates how the tenth-century chroniclers selfunderstanding as a member of a religious minority gave expression to a Christian historical imagination in the East that is just as fascinating and worthy of study as that of his Latin Christian cousins in the West.

• Introduction ; 1. Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the fifth century persecutions ; 2. The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their re-invention ; 3. The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative ; 4. The Church and the World ; 5. Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, adaptation and reaction ; 6. Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories ; 7. The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq ; 8. The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq ; Conclusion ; Episcopal and Regnal Tables ; Synodica ; History-writing in the Church of the East ; Contents of the Chronicle of Seert ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography

With an approach that broadly aligns with Rosamond McKittericks interpretation of Frankish royal annals as evidence for the Carolingian historical imagination, Woods study successfully demonstrates how the tenth-century chroniclers selfunderstanding as a member of a religious minority gave expression to a Christian historical imagination in the East that is just as fascinating and worthy of study as that of his Latin Christian cousins in the West.

• Introduction ; 1. Collaborators and Dissidents: Writing the hagiographies of the fifth century persecutions ; 2. The Martyrs and the Catholicos: The Acts of the Symeon and their re-invention ; 3. The Patriarchal Histories: Genesis of a centralising narrative ; 4. The Church and the World ; 5. Roman Ecclesiastical History in the Sasanian World: Reception, adaptation and reaction ; 6. Beyond Ctesiphon: Monasteries and aristocrats in the Christian histories ; 7. The Last Great War of Antiquity: The reaction of Christian Iraq ; 8. The Church of Baghdad: A new past for Christian Iraq ; Conclusion ; Episcopal and Regnal Tables ; Synodica ; History-writing in the Church of the East ; Contents of the Chronicle of Seert ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography