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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AndrewPalmerLes chroniques brèves syriaqueshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/42U9KLY3https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/42U9KLY3https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/42U9KLY3MurielDebiéL’historiographie syriaqueParisGeuthner200957-87Études syriaques 6Andrew Palmer provides an in-depth overview of fourteen short (mostly West) Syriac chronicles from the sixth-ninth centuries. The focus again is on historiography rather than factual reliability. Palmer notes the changes effected by the church’s forsaking the dream of universal empire and instead assimilating itself to Abbasid society. Dionysius of Tell Mahre’s lost chronicle was the key to rescuing the historiographical tradition from the brink of apocalyptic anarchy. We are rightly warned of too easily viewing the Miaphysite (West Syriac) historiography as the expression of a will to ecclesiastical independence – as late as Jacob of Edessa (d.710) the (Greek) universal ecclesia remained the dream of these historians. Yet around 720 a major break seems to have occurred and here, at the moment when Syriac historians cease to note the names of Emperors and Patriarchs and begin to date events according to caliphal years, we can glimpse that self-conscious break from the Hellenic tradition that constitutes the final fracture between East and West. Up to this point, the Fertile Crescent had remained part of a classical (Mediterranean) world. Palmer, Andrew. “Les Chroniques Brèves Syriaques.” In L’historiographie Syriaque, edited by Muriel Debié, 57–87. Études Syriaques 6. Paris: Geuthner, 2009. Andrew Palmer, Les Chroniques Brèves Syriaques, in L’historiographie Syriaque, ed. Muriel Debié, Études Syriaques 6 (Paris: Geuthner, 2009), 57–87.Dionysius of Tel-MahreIV-VII CEJacob of EdessaJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEchronicleshistoriography