New Book Series: Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact to be Published Through Brepols
The series consists of monographs, collected volumes, as well as original texts and translations of sources whose primary focus is contact or ongoing interactions between Eastern Christian communities from the age of Patristics down to the late Ottoman Empire.
The series will focus on Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, Nubian and Ethiopic Christians. Contacts between these communities are severely understudied in favour of their interactions with the Greek and Latin churches, which are frequently presented in terms of influence and reception within a Roman- or Constantinople-centered perspective. Yet, throughout centuries Eastern Christian communities enriched each other through multi-layered interactions that could also be a result of their opposition to these so-called imperial (in the case of Eastern Roman) and centralized (in the case of the Catholic) churches. Furthermore, academic publications on Eastern Christianities often address each highly sophisticated and specialized field with a small audience of scholars separately, rather than in conversation with each other.
This new series, on the one hand, will take us beyond both Byzantino-centric paradigms, serving as a corrective to any binary and limited views and, on the other, will emphasise the existence of polycentric Christianities in on-going and centuries- long interactions with each other. The publications should explore evidence for entanglements in terms of literary contacts, such as in hagiographical and polemical texts, translations between and among the relevant languages, circulation of texts, topoi, themes and/or persons across languages, as well as aspects of material culture, such as artistic and architectural exchanges or archeological evidence. The series, thus, will fill a gap in targeting and encouraging publications in an innovative field of research, which is not covered by any available academic series.
Method of peer review
Double-blind undertaken by a specialist member of the Board or an external specialist.
Fields of interest
Eastern Christianity, philology, Patristics, cultural and linguistic interaction, intellectual history, art history, material culture
Geographical scope
The Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and (Northern-Eastern) Africa
Chronological scope: 200-1800
Publishing Manager
Jirki Thibaut
General editors
Andy Hilkens, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Zaroui Pogossian, Università degli studi di Firenze
zaroui.pogossian@unifi.it Barbara Roggema, Ruhr University Bochum
Editorial Board
Marco Bais, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Aaron Butts, Catholic University of America Alberto Camplani, University of Rome La Sapienza John-Paul Ghobrial, University of Oxford
Adrian Pirtea, University of Vienna
Nikolai Seleznyov, HSE University (Moscow)
Susan Thomas, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Kerala
Dorothea Weltecke, University of Frankfurt-am-Main
Author Information
Brepols Publishers’ generalguidelines in English and a proposal form for authors and editors are available at: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/Getfile.aspx?dlfi=88
AllvolumesinthisseriesareevaluatedbyanEditorialBoard,strictly on academic grounds, based on reports prepared by referees who have been commissioned by virtue of their specialism in the appropriate field. The Board ensures that the screening is done independently and without conflicts of interest. The definitive texts supplied by authors are also subject to review by the Board before being approved for publication.
