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Presents a collection of Bernard Heyberger's studies in Middle Eastern Christianity for the first time in English, accompanied by an essay discussing the importance and legacy of his work and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Aurélien Girard is Senior Lecturer at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, member of CERHIC. He specialised in the multifaceted history of Eastern Christians (16th-19th c.) and the history of European orientalism. His last publications include 'Was an Eastern scholar necessarily a cultural broker in early-modern academic Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628-1711), the Christian East, and Oriental studies, ' in Nick Hardy and Dmitri Levitin (eds),
Faith and History: Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Cesare Santus is Senior (Tenure Track) Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste. His research focuses on the doctrinal and judicial control exercised by the Roman Inquisition over Eastern Christianity, both in the Ottoman Empire and Italy. His last publications include
Trasgressioni necessarie. (Rome: EFR, 2019) and "Wandering Lives: Eastern Christian Pilgrims, Alms-collectors and 'Refugees' in Early Modern Rome", in E. Michelson, M. Coneys Wainwright (eds),
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 237-271. Vassa Kontouma is the Dean of the Religious Sciences Section, EPHE Paris. Her most recent research focuses on the circulation of Orthodox books, ecclesiastical scholarly networks and the theology of the sacraments (15th-17th c.), as well as the phenomenon of popular theology in its late expressions (18th-19th c.). Her last publications include 'Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Greek Reception of Aquinas, ' in M. Levering, M. Plested (eds),
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 313-328. Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Groningen University. Her research considers the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in the Levant, missionaries' modalities and impact and Arab Catholic communities in Palestine. She recently published with K. Papastathis, Contemporary Levant, special issue, 'Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European Cultural Diplomacy (1860-1948). A Connected History, ' vol. 6, issue 1, 2021.
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Presents a collection of Bernard Heyberger’s studies in Middle Eastern Christianity for the first time in English, accompanied by an essay discussing the importance and legacy of his work and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings.
