The Copts and the West, 1439-1822: The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church
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. This book, the 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 st…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-928877-9
- EAN: 9780199288779
- Produktnummer: 22680546
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.4 cm 599 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 599
Über den Autor
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 theArcadian Series (London/Oxford). Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
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