Relics and episcopal Authority in Sasanian Iran
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This paper analyzes the relationship between episcopacy and the cult of the relics in Sasanian Empire. It will be argued that the cult of martyrs’ relics contributed to the shift in the definition of episcopal Authority in the Church of the East in Fifth Century. In this regard, the tensions over the control of Christian shrines cannot be understood as an actual conflict between preexistent lay and clerical elites.
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Francisco, H. R. (2017). Relics and episcopal Authority in Sasanian Iran. Sociedades Precapitalistas, 6(2), e016. https://doi.org/10.24215/22505121e016
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Caner, D. (2006). Towards a Miraculous Economy Christian Gifts and Material “Blessings” in Late Antiquity. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 14, pp. 329-377.
Decret, F. (1979). Les conséquences sur le christianisme en Perse de l'affrontement des empires romain et sassanide. De Shâpûr Ier à Yazdgard Ier. Recherches Augustiniennes et Patristiques, 14, pp. 91-152.
Devos, P. (1965). Abgar: hagiographe perse méconnu (début du Ve siècle). Analecta Bollandiana, 83: pp. 303-28.
Fiey, J.M. (1969). L'élam, la première des métropoles ecclésiastiques syriennes orientales. Meltho, 5, pp. 221-267.
Fiey, J.M. (1970). L'Élam, la première des métropoles ecclésiastiques syriennes orientales (suite). Parole de l'Orient, 1, pp. 123-153.
Fiey, J.M. (1986). La vie mouvementée des reliques dans l'orient. Parole de l'Orient, 13, pp. 183-196.
Jammo, S. (1995). Trois synodes, deux ecclésiologies de l'Eglise de l'Orient. Istina, 40, 140-148.
Jullien, C. (2006). La minorité chrétienne “grecque“ en terre d’Iran. En: Gyselen, R. (ed.) Chrétiens en terre d’Iran: implantation et acculturation. París: AAEI, pp. 105-142.
Jullien, C. (2008). VIe siècle, un Temps de réformes en Iran. Échos dans l'Eglise syro-Orientale? Parole de l'Orient, 33, pp. 219-232.
Markus, R.A. (1994). How on Earth Could Places Become Holy? Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2, pp. 257-271.
McDonough, S. (2006). A Question of Faith? Persecution and Political centralization in the Sasanian Empire of Yazdgard II (438-457 CE.). En: Drake, H.A. Violence, Victims, and Vindication in Late Antiquity. (pp. 69-85). Aldershot: Ashgate.
McDonough, S. (2008a). Bishops or Bureaucrats?: Christian Clergy and the State in the Middle Sasanian Period. En: Kennet, D. & Luft, P. (eds.) Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology, Art and History. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, pp. 87-92.
McDonough, S. (2008b). A Second Constantine?: The Sasanian King Yazdgard in Christian History and Historiography. Journal of Late Antiquity,1, pp. 127-140.
Mosig-Walburg, K. (2010). Deportationen römischer Christen in das Sasanidenreich durch Shapur I. und ihre Folgen – Eine Neubewertung. Klio, 92.1, pp. 117–156.
Payne, R. (2011). The emergence of martyrs’ shrines in late antique Iran: conflict, consensus, and communal Institutions. En: Sarris, P., Dal Santo, M. &.Booth, P. (eds.) An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity. (pp. 89-113). Leiden: Brill.
Payne, R. (2015). A State of Mixture Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Peeters, P. (1925). Le 'Passionaire d'Adiabène. Analecta Bollandiana, 43, pp. 261-304.
Van Rompay, L. (1995). Impetuous Martyrs? The Situation of the Persian Christians in the Last Years of Yazdgard I (419-421). En Lambergis, M. & Van Deun, P. (eds.) Martyrium in Multidisciplinary Perspective. Memorial Louis Reekmans. Lovaina: Peeters, pp. 363-375.
Vööbus, A. (1961). The Institution of the Benai Qeiama and Benat Qeiama in the Ancient Syrian Church. Church History, 30, pp. 19-27.
Wiessner, G. (1967). Zur Märtyrer-überlieferung aus der Christenverfolgung Schapurs II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.