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From the book The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725612-toc
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The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium
The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium

Chapters in this book (24)

Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership
Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership
The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I
The Emperor’s Two Cities: Augustine’s Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24
Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence
Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor
Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View
Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia
The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography
Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447–522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli
The Creation of a “Pious” Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485–523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century)
Concerning Four Kings From the Land of ‘Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets’
The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo’s Historia Wambae
Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century)
A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources
Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860–940)
Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt
Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century)
Index of Persons and Places
Subject Index
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