60 Years after Peter Kawerau: Remarks on the Social and Cultural History of Syriac-Orthodox Christians from the XIth to the XIIth Century

60 Years after Peter Kawerau: Remarks on the Social and Cultural History of Syriac-Orthodox Christians from the XIth to the XIIth CenturyLe MuséonSyriaca.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/ADGFH2SE/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.DorotheaWeltecke60 Years after Peter Kawerau: Remarks on the Social and Cultural History of Syriac-Orthodox Christians from the XIth to the XIIth Centuryhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ADGFH2SEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ADGFH2SEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ADGFH2SELe Muséon121:3-42008311-335The paper takes the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the completion of Peter Kawerau’s doctoral dissertation <i>Die jakobitische Kirche im Zeitalter der syrischen Renaissance: Idee und Wirklichkeit</i> to discuss its merits and disadvantages as well as the present state of social historical research. Thanks to its systematic approach, Kawerau’s work proves an excellent starting point for research in social and cultural history even today. New research questions arose mainly in the fields of female religiosity versus male religiosity and church hierarchy, secular professionals and secular scholars versus ecclesiastical scholars, social structures of lay groups, either in the city or in rural areas, elite and underpriviledged. At the same time theoretical and empirical methods have been established during the last decades, which were not available at Kawerau’s times. Compared to the state of the arts in the study of the Latin Middle Ages or of Muslim societies the social and cultural history of the Syriac-Orthodox Church is still at its beginning. Through Bertold Spuler’s initiative, however, Peter Kawerau developed a systematic approach for the analysis of the history of the Syriac-Orthodox Church not only as the history of a religious institution, but as the history of a social group within the Near Eastern worlds. This achievement remains a landmark and a challenge to present day research. Weltecke, Dorothea. “60 Years after Peter Kawerau: Remarks on the Social and Cultural History of Syriac-Orthodox Christians from the XIth to the XIIth Century.” Le Muséon 121:3-4 (2008): 311–35. Dorothea Weltecke, 60 Years after Peter Kawerau: Remarks on the Social and Cultural History of Syriac-Orthodox Christians from the XIth to the XIIth Century, Le Muséon 121:3-4 (2008): 311–35.BarhebraeusJacobitesXI CEXII CEclergymonasticism