Was an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628–1711), the Christian East, and Oriental Studies

Was an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628–1711), the Christian East, and Oriental StudiesProceedings of the British Academy 225Syriaca.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/L94ILDTQ/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AurélienGirardWas an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628–1711), the Christian East, and Oriental Studieshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/L94ILDTQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/L94ILDTQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/L94ILDTQNicholasHardyDmitriLevitinConfessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the HumanitiesOxfordOxford University Press2019240-263Proceedings of the British Academy 225The article examines the <i>Evoplia fidei catholicae romanae historico-dogmatica</i> (The Historical-dogmatic Armour of the Roman Catholic Faith), a book which was published in Rome in 1694 by a Maronite, Faustus Naironus (b. 1628, d. 1708–1712). This Eastern Christian wrote several books in his own name, and spent his entire career in Rome, but failed to enjoy much of a reputation as a scholar during his own lifetime. Published by the Congregation of Propaganda press, the <i>Evoplia </i>was a controversial anti-Protestant book, where Naironus presented the Syrian Christians’ contribution to the Catholic cause: according to him, Eastern Christians, regardless of their Church, adhered to the Roman Catholic Church’s position on the seven sacraments and the main dogmas. I chart the gestation of the book, and explore the reasons – some confessional, some scholarly – why this work elicited little response, both among Protestant and French Catholic scholars. Girard, Aurélien. “Was an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628–1711), the Christian East, and Oriental Studies.” In Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the Humanities, edited by Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin, 240–63. Proceedings of the British Academy 225. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Aurélien Girard, Was an Eastern Scholar Necessarily a Cultural Broker in Early Modern Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628–1711), the Christian East, and Oriental Studies, in Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the Humanities, ed. Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin, Proceedings of the British Academy 225 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 240–63.