Entangled Literary Genres in Syriac from Malabar in the Aftermath of the Synod of Diamper (1599)

During the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries, the Syriac literary heritage of the Malabar Christians shifted from a standard East Syriac ("Nestorian") canon of texts to a Catholic post-Tridentine literary output in Syriac, a fusion of Western (Lat...

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Main Author: Mustață, Radu (Author)
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2022
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 5
Further subjects:B Jesuit Studies
B liturgical poetry
B Intellectual History
B early modern global Catholicism
B Religious and cultural transfers in Malabar
B Syriac studies
B collections of Syriac Catholic sermons
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