The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy

The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy

A reissue of Sir Steven Runciman's classic account of the Dualist heretic tradition in Christianity from its Gnostic origins, through Armenia, Byzantium, and the Balkans to its final flowering in Italy and Southern France. The chief danger that early Christianity had to face came from the heretical Dualist sect founded in the mid-third century AD by the prophet Mani. Within a century of his death Manichaean churches were established from western Mediterranean lands to eastern Turkestan. Though Manichaeism failed in the end to supplant orthodox Christianity, the Church had been badly frightened; and henceforth it gave the hated epithet of 'Manichaean' to the churches of Dualist doctrines that survived into the late Middle Ages.

Country	USA
Author	Steven Runciman
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Cambridge University Press
EAN	9780521289269
Edition	Revised ed.
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0521289262
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	228
PublicationDate	1982-09-30
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Studio	Cambridge University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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