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Conference at the Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul

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Research paper thumbnail of The Science of Pilgrimage, 1400–1700: Navigating Incarnation and Absence - University of Bern (15-16 October 2020) (CANCELLED/POSTPONED)

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Research paper thumbnail of Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia

Past & Present, 2021

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ott... more This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on traditional characteristics such as links to a defined institutional repository, but on their purpose of community formation. The loose institutional structure of the Chaldean Church resulted in an unconventional archive, which never had one physical centre and consisted largely of liturgical manuscripts; nonetheless, it recorded recognizably archival material and gained cohesion from the overlapping circles of families, scribes and churches involved in its production, as well as from systematic innovations in scribal practices. The Diyarbakır Chaldean archive not only reflected the distinctive form of the community but also contributed to creating and reshaping it. By recording social ties, it kept these obligations alive for decades and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger

Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Stylites Programme Istanbul

Conference at the Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul

Research paper thumbnail of The Science of Pilgrimage, 1400–1700: Navigating Incarnation and Absence - University of Bern (15-16 October 2020) (CANCELLED/POSTPONED)

Research paper thumbnail of Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia

Past & Present, 2021

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ott... more This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on traditional characteristics such as links to a defined institutional repository, but on their purpose of community formation. The loose institutional structure of the Chaldean Church resulted in an unconventional archive, which never had one physical centre and consisted largely of liturgical manuscripts; nonetheless, it recorded recognizably archival material and gained cohesion from the overlapping circles of families, scribes and churches involved in its production, as well as from systematic innovations in scribal practices. The Diyarbakır Chaldean archive not only reflected the distinctive form of the community but also contributed to creating and reshaping it. By recording social ties, it kept these obligations alive for decades and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger

Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2016

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