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Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (Veroefentlichungen zur Iranistik, Nr. 61), Yuri Stoyanov, Vienna: Verlag der Oesterreichichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7001-7169-0, 103 pp.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
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1 On this, see most significantly the narrative of the “Chronicle of Khuzestan” which has the Sasanian Queen and a close confidant as the major culprits in the plot of moving the Cross from Jerusalem to the Sasanian territories. See Noeldeke, Theodor, “Die von Guidi herausgegebene syrische Chronik uebersetzt und commentiert”, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 128 (1893): 1–48.Google Scholar English translation, by S. Brock, unpublished manuscript used by the kind permission of the translator.
2 For a useful summary of this debate, and the author's own take on the issue, see Daryaee, Touraj, “Sasanians and their Ancestors,” Societas Iranologica Europea—Proceedings (Milano, 2005), 1: 287–93.Google Scholar
3 For this characterization, see the recent work of Howard-Johnston, James, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford, 2011).Google Scholar
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