Generous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850

Generous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850Hugoye: Journal of Syriac StudiesSyriaca.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/RNG9WQFB/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Hendrika LenaMurre-van den BergGenerous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850http://syriaca.org/cbss/RNG9WQFBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RNG9WQFBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RNG9WQFBHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies7:12004In the centuries following the Ottoman conquest of northern Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, the Church of the East showed a remarkable vitality, which was expressed among other things in a considerable manuscript production and the restoration of churches and monasteries. This article intends to highlight the contribution of women to this revival. It is based mainly on a study of manuscript colophons and a few inscriptions, which testify to the large number of women who were involved in financing the production of manuscripts and to their reasons for doing so. A closer reading of the colophons also reveals details about the social position of these women, the role of their fathers, brothers, and husbands, as well as about their position within the church—varying from incidental references to daughters of the convenant, deaconnesses and nuns, to highly-esteemed mothers and well-doers in the Christian community. Finally, the article asks for a closer reading of the colophons in order to enlarge our knowledge of the Church of the East in this period of history. Murre-van den Berg, Hendrika Lena. “Generous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7:1 (2004). Hendrika Lena Murre-van den Berg, Generous Devotion: Women in the Church of the East between 1550 and 1850, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7:1 (2004).NestoriansXIX CEXVI CEXVII CEXVIII CEcolophonswomen