The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its Sources

By (author) A. Hilkens

Book cover: The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its Sources

Extent: 351 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Series volume number: 272, 18

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2018)

ISBN: 9789042934023

Price: $123.00

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(September 2018)

ISBN: 9789042936881

Price: $154.00

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.

  • By (author) A. Hilkens

". . . Hilkens's historiographical and literary-historical study is currently the most detailed investigation of the Chronicle of 1234 and a highly valuable contribution to research on the period of the Syriac Renaissance." Jakob, Joachim, Independent Scholar, Linz, Austria "This book provides a glimpse into the breadth of the intellectual culture of Syriac Christians, and the intellectual history of medieval non-European Christianity deserves more attention . . . This volume is an insightful and fruitful starting point in that direction." Carlson, Thomas A., Church History, May 23, 2022
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