Leeming, Emma Loosley

Architecture and Asceticism Cultural Interaction Between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity - Leiden, Boston Brill 2018 - 236p - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity; 201800ENGGPS1 .

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Syrians, assyrians, orthodox, chalcedonians and monophysites or non chalcedonians:The problems of Identifying the thirteen fathers ............9 2. A parallel evolution? Issues in Vernacular architecture and the development of church building in Syria and georgia ....................28 3. The mistery of the missing objects: Do archaeological artefacts and liturgical objects support the story of syrians in kartli?..................52 4. Symeon and his followers : Stylitism as a Cultural trend between syria and georgia ....85 5. The evidence written in stone................103 6. The syrian bema and the georgian pre-altar cross...............130 7. An argument from silence ..................149 8. The unknown factors: Evidence from the cave monasteries and the significance of Georgian vernacular religion as a relic of Earlier ritual practices .........167

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