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The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
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Byzantine Studies
Miscellanea | Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
Capitolo | Textual Exchanges in Late Antiquity East and South of Byzantium Seen Through an Eastern Christian Lens
Abstract
Scientific and philosophical texts circulated as is expected between the Roman and Sasanian empires as well as more east and west towards Europe and towards India and China. Arabia, though still often absent from the mental map of Late Antiquity, was also involved in exchanges of written texts, mainly letters. It is more surprising to see that religious texts were also discussed in the courts. Byzantium engaged in geopolitical and religious dialogue with its eastern and southern neighbours through clerics who played also a role as ambassadors of knowledge and cultural delegates. Syriac texts written in the eastern Roman empire or east of Byzantium offer a slightly decentred picture of these relations viewed from and beyond the borders of empires.
Presentato: 01 Giugno 2022 | Accettato: 28 Giugno 2022 | Pubblicato 22 Agosto 2022 | Lingua: en
Keywords History of religions • Late antiquity • Cultural history • Global history • Byzantium • Eastern Christianity • History of sciences • Sasanian empire • Syriac studies
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Section 1. Patrimoines
Section 2. Linking Fields, Approaches, and Methods
Section 3. Textual Exchanges
Section 4. Continuity and Break: From Ancient to Medieval Worlds
Section 5. Social, Cultural, and Material Networks
Section 6. Byzantium and the Turks
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Debié Muriel |
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Textual Exchanges in Late Antiquity East and South of Byzantium Seen Through an Eastern Christian Lens |
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Capitolo |
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en |
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Scientific and philosophical texts circulated as is expected between the Roman and Sasanian empires as well as more east and west towards Europe and towards India and China. Arabia, though still often absent from the mental map of Late Antiquity, was also involved in exchanges of written texts, mainly letters. It is more surprising to see that religious texts were also discussed in the courts. Byzantium engaged in geopolitical and religious dialogue with its eastern and southern neighbours through clerics who played also a role as ambassadors of knowledge and cultural delegates. Syriac texts written in the eastern Roman empire or east of Byzantium offer a slightly decentred picture of these relations viewed from and beyond the borders of empires. |
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The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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2022-08-22 |
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2022-06-28 |
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2022-06-01 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-590-2/textual-exchanges-in-late-antiquity-east-and-south/ |
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10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2/015 |
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3715-9453 |
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978-88-6969-590-2 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Byzantium |
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Cultural history |
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Eastern Christianity |
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Global history |
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History of religions |
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History of sciences |
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Late antiquity |
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Sasanian empire |
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Syriac studies |
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