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The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy

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The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy - Runciman, Steven, Sir
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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 ...

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The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy 1982, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521061667

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The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy 1982, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521289269

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