The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and Its Sources

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-429-3402-3
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 272, 351 Seiten, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analect

In the late 1230s or in the 1240s, a Syriac Orthodox historian continued

a Syriac Chronicle up to the Year 1204. The result, the Anonymous Syriac

Chronicle up to the Year 1234, is the subject of this monograph. While

accepting the chronicle’s import for the history of the city of Edessa,

the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Crusades, this study approaches the

text from a literary historical standpoint, as a valuable source for

historical, hagiographical, apocryphal, exegetical and epistolary

traditions, taken from extant as well as now lost sources. Through the

deconstruction of a process of intercultural transmission that began in

the fourth or third century BC, it reveals the influence of a wide range

of Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources, written in Syriac, Hebrew,

Greek and Arabic, and reconstructs some of the chronicle’s now lost

sources such as the chronicle of Andronicus and a medieval Greek history

along the way.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hilkens, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten