Bøker av Sean W. Anthony

Among those taken captive after the capture of Jerusalem in 614 CE by the Persian armies was Strategius, a monk who composed a homily recounting the events leading up to the siege of the Holy City and its aftermath. This volume provides, for the first time, a complete side-by-side English translation of both the Georgian and the Arabic recensions.

Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how they drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the Late Roman and Sasanid Persian worlds.