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Darrera modificació: 2026-09-22
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Sheridan, Daniel, Sogdian Christians Networks, Books, Homilies, and Medicine, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026, 210 pp.
- Resum
- After centuries of obscurity, the Sogdian people have once again been recognized as the premier long-distance traders of the famed Eurasian trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia, popularly referred to as the “Silk Roads.” Similarily, a previous Christian association with Sogdians and their language had also been all but forgotten until the archeological finds at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, this study explores some of the results of Sogdian Christians having once moved within a confluence of networks, with connections to the wider Christian world and the transcontinental trading networks of the Sogdians. Furthermore, extant evidence shows the once wide-spread currency of the Sogdian language among Christians throughout Central Asia. Through the case studies of book culture, knowledge transmission, and the healing arts, the prominence of the “Sogdian element” in Christian activities outside of the Roman world becomes readily apparent not just for the history of Christianity but also the histories of Central Asia, China, and others.
Contents:
* Introduction. - Previous Scholarship; Terminology
* Chapter One. - Early Contacts and Later Networks; Multiple Roads from Jerusalem to Sogdiana?; The Syriac World and Intertwining Networks; The Western Sogdian Trade Routes; Christians and the Eastern Sogdian Trade Routes
The Christian Turco-Sogdian Milieu; Conclusion
* Chapter Two. - ‘Persian' Monks Bearing Christian Book Culture; The Early Christian Book; The Memorialized Arrival of ‘Persian' Monks with jing 經; Sogdians and Christian Book Culture at Turfan; Bosi jingjiao 波斯經教: What's in a name?; Localization of a Book Culture; The Fate of a Book Culture; Conclusion
* Chapter Three. - The Transmission of Christian Knowledge; Christian Knowledge at Turfan; Pelliot chinois 3847 and Christian Knowledge Translated into Chinese; A Shared Source for a Passion Narrative in Sogdian and Chinese?; Other Means of Knowledge Transmission; Conclusion
* Chapter Four. - The Medicine of Life; The Dynamic Milieu of Central Asian Medicine; A Sogdian Christian Pharmacopeia and Other Unearthed Evidence; A Sogdian Christian View of Wellbeing?; Conclusion
* Concluding Thoughts
* Bibliography
- Matèries
- Religió
Fonts
Història de la medicina
Manuscrits
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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