De la xenia païenne à l’aksenia monastique: définition, représentations et pratiques de l’hospitalité dans les communautés grecques et syriaques de Grande Syrie (IVe-VIe siècles)

De la xenia païenne à l’aksenia monastique: définition, représentations et pratiques de l’hospitalité dans les communautés grecques et syriaques de Grande Syrie (IVe-VIe siècles)Syriaca.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/FMNWMDBP/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ClaireFauchonDe la xenia païenne à l’aksenia monastique: définition, représentations et pratiques de l’hospitalité dans les communautés grecques et syriaques de Grande Syrie (IVe-VIe siècles)http://syriaca.org/cbss/FMNWMDBPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/FMNWMDBPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/FMNWMDBP2012This doctoral thesis deals with xenia in Great Syria from Constantine’s reign to Justinian’s. The comparison between the Greek and the Syriac uses of the notion of hospitality brings to light important semantic modifications that reflect irreducible differences between the Pagan and Christian conceptions of hospitality. This notion gets Christianized in the course of the 4th and 5th centuries, to the point of becoming a theological topic, privilege of monastic milieux, particularly Syriac ones. But how far does the Christianization of mentalities necessarily imply a deep modification in cultural and social practices of reception and a complete change in the material structures in which reception activities take place? The study of hospitality structures and facilities reveals the durability of the localization of reception structures at the level of the Syrian territory throughout late Antiquity, even if, at the level of the structures themselves, the diversity of the solutions adopted seems to testify to a real attachment to regional traditions. Finally, the examination of the protagonists of hospitality shows that monks are far from being the only actors of hospitality in Great Syria. Besides, there is a contradiction between the standard universalist discourse of Christian welcoming and reality, as we can decipher it. The links between hospitality and dissidence have to be considered. New criteria of selection of hosts and guests appear in Late Antiquity. Heresy re-introduces the idea of specific criteria into use, which causes the “deconstruction” of the social pattern and new political stakes, which seem to influence the birth of the Non-Chalcedonian Church. Fauchon, Claire. “De La Xenia Païenne à l’aksenia Monastique: Définition, Représentations et Pratiques de l’hospitalité Dans Les Communautés Grecques et Syriaques de Grande Syrie (IVe-VIe Siècles).” Thèse de doctorat, Université Jean Moulin ‒ Lyon III, 2012. Claire Fauchon, De La Xenia Païenne à l’aksenia Monastique: Définition, Représentations et Pratiques de l’hospitalité Dans Les Communautés Grecques et Syriaques de Grande Syrie (IVe-VIe Siècles) (Thèse de doctorat, Université Jean Moulin ‒ Lyon III, 2012).IV CEIV-VII CEJacobitesV CEVI CEethicsmonasticismsocietyspirituality