Textual Exchanges in Late Antiquity East and South of Byzantium

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_9756
dc.contributor.author	Debié Muriel
dc.title	Textual Exchanges in Late Antiquity East and South of Byzantium Seen Through an Eastern Christian Lens
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-08-22
dc.dateAccepted	2022-06-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-06-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-590-2/textual-exchanges-in-late-antiquity-east-and-south/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2/015
dc.identifier.eissn	3715-9453
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-590-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Byzantium
dc.subject	Cultural history
dc.subject	Eastern Christianity
dc.subject	Global history
dc.subject	History of religions
dc.subject	History of sciences
dc.subject	Late antiquity
dc.subject	Sasanian empire
dc.subject	Syriac studies

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Textual Exchanges in Late Antiquity East and South of Byzantium Seen Through an Eastern Christian Lens

Muriel Debié École pratique des hautes études; Université PSL; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris

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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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Aug. 22, 2022

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June 28, 2022

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June 1, 2022

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978-88-6969-590-2

Keywords: Syriac studies • Global history • Eastern Christianity • Late antiquity • Sasanian empire • Cultural history • History of sciences • History of religions • Byzantium

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