Empress Helena in the Cultural Memory of Syriac Christians: Two New TestimoniesБиблия и христианская древностьSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/G6HMZBUP/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SergeyMinovEmpress Helena in the Cultural Memory of Syriac Christians: Two New Testimonieshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/G6HMZBUPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/G6HMZBUPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/G6HMZBUPБиблия и христианская древность1 [25]2025116-150The article publishes for the first time in complete form two Syriac texts dedicated to the figure of Empress Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine — the correspondence with Helena from the epistolary corpus attributed to Papa bar Aggai, bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (IV c.), and the anonymous <i>Hypomnemata about the origin of Empress Helena</i>, in which the story of the empress’ Syriac origins and her path to the heights of power is told. Along with a discussion of the issues pertinent to their dating and authenticity, an attempt is made to contextualize these hagiographic works, which reflect the interests of the Christian elites of the two most important centers of Syriac culture of Late Antiquity and the Islamic period — Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Edessa.
Minov, Sergey. “Empress Helena in the Cultural Memory of Syriac Christians: Two New Testimonies.” Библия и христианская древность 1 [25] (2025): 116–50. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31802/BCA.2025.25.1.004.
Sergey Minov, Empress Helena in the Cultural Memory of Syriac Christians: Two New Testimonies,Библия и христианская древность 1 [25] (2025): 116–50, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31802/BCA.2025.25.1.004.