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Early Christian remains of Inner Mongolia : discovery, reconstruction and appropriation /
The early Christian presence in Inner Mongolia forms the subject of this book. These Nestorian remains must primarily be attributed to the Ongut, a Turkic people closely allied to the Mongols. Writing in Syriac, Uighur and Chinese scripts and languages, the Nestorian Ongut drew upon a variety of rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 88. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of maps, fi gures and plates; List of appendices; Acknowledgements; Note on names, spelling and illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE TIME AND PLACE; Chapter One On the term 'Nestorianism' and the early Chinese terms for Christianity; Chapter Two Medieval envoys connecting Europe and the Mongol empire; Chapter Three Nestorian Christians in Central Asia and China in the Mongol era; PART TWO DISCOVERY AND DOCUMENTATION OF NESTORIAN REMAINS IN INNER MONGOLIA; Chapter Four Foreign discovery and documentation of Nestorian remains in Inner Mongolia before 1949.