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In The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) Wendy Mayer and
Pauline Allen for the first time draw together all of the existing
evidence concerning the Christian worship sites of this influential
late-antique city, with significantly new results in a number of cases.
In addition to providing a catalogue of the worship sites, in which each
entry critiques and summarizes the available data, supplemented by
photographs from the excavations, the authors analyze the data from a
number of perspectives. These include the political, economic and
natural forces that influenced the construction, alteration and
reconstruction of churches and martyria, and the political, liturgical
and social use and function of these buildings. Among the results is an
emerging awareness of the extent of the lacunae and biases in the
sources, and of the influence of these on interpretation of the city's
churches in the past. What also rises to the fore is the significant
role played by the schisms within the Christian community that dominated
the city's landscape for much of these centuries.
