RT Article
T1 Patriarchs, Bishops and Monasteries in the Syriac Consecration Lists, c. 800–1000
JF Church history
VO 94
IS 1
SP 1
OP 20
A1 Wood, Philip 1982-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1939746337
AB This article offers a new chapter in the history of the Severan Miaphysite church, the ancestor-institution of the modern-day Syriac Orthodox. It employs the consecration lists in Michael the Syrian’s 12th-century chronicle to investigate changing patterns of authority, and relationships between monasteries and episcopal sees, in a period poorly served by narrative sources. The home monastery of the Miaphysite patriarchs corresponds to shifts in political authority from Abbasid Raqqa, to Hamdanid Aleppo, to Byzantine Melitene, but this did not preclude the survival of local patterns of patronage. Clusters of patronage, identified using historical network analysis, are not geographically segregated, and this helps to explain the relative stability of the network, which did not see major attempts at secession in this period. The patterns in these lists help us to establish the places where narrative sources highlight unusual phenomena, and where the phenomena they report are typical features of the relationships between bishops and monasteries.
K1 Bishops
K1 Christians under Muslim rule
K1 Jacobite
K1 Melitene
K1 Monasteries
K1 Network Analysis
K1 Syriac Orthodox
DO 10.1017/S0009640725102400