2010/02/01 by Heleen H. L. Murre-van den Berg · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Islamic Studies and History #Fifteenth #Ancient history #Art #History #Archaeology
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) have formed the basis of the present list. 2 Apart from these lists of patriarchs, the main sources for reconstructing the patriarchal succession are the references to patriarchs, natar kursis (designated successors), and bishops in manuscript colophons, as well as a few Syriac historical writings, archival material concerning relationships between Rome and the Church of the East, and, rather important, Vost's edition of the burial inscriptions from the monastery of Rabban Hormizd near Alqosh (Vost 1930a). In this monastery, the patriarchs of the Church of the East had their see from around 1437 to 1804. 3 A recent Oxford dissertation, David Wilmshurst's "The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913," supplied some important additions, based as it is on a large number of manuscript colophons from the period under discussion. 4 [2]