TY - BOOK
T1 - Medieval Christian and Manichaean remains from Quanzhou
AU - Lieu, Samuel N. C.
AU - Eccles, Lance
AU - Franzmann, Majella
AU - Gardner, Iain
AU - Parry, Ken
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Better known to Western medieval travelers as Zayton, Quanzhou in Fujian was China's main port and also the terminus of the maritime Silk Road. The city was home to a cosmopolitan population especially when China was under Mongol rule (ca. 1280-1368 CE). Italian visitors to and inhabitants of the city included Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone and Andrew of Perugia. The city had a significant Christian population, both Catholic and Church of the East (Nestorian), and the nearby town of Jinjiang has to this day in its neighbourhood a Manichaean shrine housing a unique statue of Mani as the Buddha of Light. These religious communities left a wealth of art on stone which first came to light in the mid-twentieth century but is still very little known and studied outside China. This volume containing over 200 illustrations (many in full colour) is the work of a team of scholars from Australian universities in collaboration with the major museums in Quanzhou and Jinjiang and is the first major work on this unique material in a Western language.
AB - Better known to Western medieval travelers as Zayton, Quanzhou in Fujian was China's main port and also the terminus of the maritime Silk Road. The city was home to a cosmopolitan population especially when China was under Mongol rule (ca. 1280-1368 CE). Italian visitors to and inhabitants of the city included Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone and Andrew of Perugia. The city had a significant Christian population, both Catholic and Church of the East (Nestorian), and the nearby town of Jinjiang has to this day in its neighbourhood a Manichaean shrine housing a unique statue of Mani as the Buddha of Light. These religious communities left a wealth of art on stone which first came to light in the mid-twentieth century but is still very little known and studied outside China. This volume containing over 200 illustrations (many in full colour) is the work of a team of scholars from Australian universities in collaboration with the major museums in Quanzhou and Jinjiang and is the first major work on this unique material in a Western language.
KW - Franciscans--Missions--China
KW - Christian antiquities--China
KW - Christian antiquities--China--Quanzhou Shi
KW - Manichaeism--China--Quanzhou Shi
KW - Excavations (Archaeology)--China--Quanzhou Shi
KW - Christian art and symbolism--China--Quanzhou Shi
KW - China--Church history
KW - Quanzhou Shi (China)--Antiquities
M3 - Book
SN - 9782503521978
T3 - Corpus fontium Manichaeorum. Series archaeologica et iconographica
BT - Medieval Christian and Manichaean remains from Quanzhou
PB - Brepols
CY - Turnhout
ER -