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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MurielDebié“La science est commune”: sources syriaques et culture grecque en Syrie-Mésopotamie par-delà les siècles obscurs byzantinshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SKJRVC63https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/SKJRVC63https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/SKJRVC63BernardFlusinJean-ClaudeCheynetAutour du <i>Premier humanisme byzantin</i> & des <i>Cinq études sur le XI<sup>e</sup> siècle</i>, quarante ans après Paul LemerleParisAssociation des amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance201787-127Travaux et Mémoires 21.2Along the lines of a reappraisal of the so-called Byzantine “Dark Ages,” this contribution addresses
the question of the re-emergence of classical culture in Byzantium in the 9th century and how Syriac
sources can throw some light on the continuation and yet transformation of late antique teaching
and scholasticism. The continuous work by Syriac scholars on Greek scientific and philosophical
texts in the 7th–10th centuries shows the availability of Greek manuscripts in the East, even beyond
the Roman-Sasanian border. Syriac literature can help understand the transformation of Hellenism
and the constitution of a cultural koine in other languages than Greek. A Christian as well as more
specifically Syrian Hellenism blended the cultural idioms of Greek and “oriental” culture. Not only
did Greek culture survive, but it spread in the Arabic polity and ultimately re-emerged in Byzantium
from the shelves of the Byzantine libraries. Oblivion of classical “pagan” literature was parallel to the
transmission of a new canonised knowledge in Syriac and then Arabic but was ultimately reversed:
not so much thanks to the “return” of Greek manuscripts and texts from the East however as from a
competition over the appropriation of ancient Greek culture beyond Christianity.
Debié, Muriel. “‘La Science Est Commune’: Sources Syriaques et Culture Grecque En Syrie-Mésopotamie Par-Delà Les Siècles Obscurs Byzantins.” In Autour Du Premier Humanisme Byzantin & Des Cinq Études Sur Le XIe Siècle, Quarante Ans Après Paul Lemerle, edited by Bernard Flusin and Jean-Claude Cheynet, 87–127. Travaux et Mémoires 21.2. Paris: Association des amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2017.
Muriel Debié, ‘La Science Est Commune’: Sources Syriaques et Culture Grecque En Syrie-Mésopotamie Par-Delà Les Siècles Obscurs Byzantins, in Autour Du Premier Humanisme Byzantin & Des Cinq Études Sur Le XIe Siècle, Quarante Ans Après Paul Lemerle, ed. Bernard Flusin and Jean-Claude Cheynet, Travaux et Mémoires 21.2 (Paris: Association des amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2017), 87–127.Greek languageGreek philosophyHarranHellenismIX CEJacobitesMelkitesVII-XVIII CEVIII CEX CEmonastery of Qenneshrescience