Studies on the History of Late Antique and Christian Nubia
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Studies on the History of Late Antique and Christian Nubia
About this book
Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications. Kirwan's fieldwork in the region, undertaken between 1929 and 1936, kindled a life-long interest in the transition from the pagan Kushite kingdom to the medieval Nubian states of Nobadia, Makuria and Alodia (Alwa) and of their conversion to Christianity in the 6th century AD. The 25 studies, one published here for the first time, were often of seminal importance when they first appeared, the author being exemplary in his use of the written sources to elucidate the archaeological data. As the preface by the editors shows, the views expressed remain fundamental to modern scholarship, offering valuable insights into this still relatively obscure period of transition from the ancient to the medieval world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I Introduction: Post-Meroitic Nubia – A Reappraisal
- II Nubia – An African Frontier Zone
- III Rome Beyond the Southern Egyptian Frontier
- IV The International Position of Sudan in Roman and Medieval Times
- V Greek and Roman Expeditions to the Southern Sudan
- VI The Decline and Fall of Meroe
- VII An Ethiopian-Sudanese Frontier Zone in Ancient History
- VIII The 'Christian Topography' and the Kingdom of Axum
- IX A Survey of Nubian Origins
- X The Problem of the Nubian X-Group
- XI Comments on the Origins and History of the Nobatae of Procopius
- XII The Early History of the Blemmyes
- XIII Tanqasi and the Noba
- XIV Aksum, Meroe, and the Ballana Civilisation
- XV The X-Group Problem
- XVI A Contemporary Account of the Conversion of the Sudan to Christianity
- XVII Christianity and the Kur'án
- XVIII Prelude to Nubian Christianity
- XIX The Nature of Nubian Christianity
- XX Some Thoughts on the Conversion of Nubia to Christianity
- XXI The Birth of Christian Nubia: Some Archaeological Problems
- XXII Christianity in the Central Sudan: The Byzantine Mission and Nubian Alwa
- XXIII Notes on the Topography of the Christian Nubian Kingdoms
- XXIV The Emergence of the United Kingdom of Nubia
- XXV Studies in the Later History of Nubia
- Indices