CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Joy, Emy Merin |
|---|---|
| Title | Christian Manuscripts of Kerala (India): Revisiting Popular Histories of the Syrian Christians in the Early Modern Period |
| Summary | This study reinterprets the popular histories of the Syrian Christian community by revisiting them through the local sources, specifically using the recently discovered Leiden MSS 1213 and 1214. A textual and comparative analysis of the sources clarifies certain errors and misunderstanding in the popular histories of the community and shows, how histories are manipulated to fulfil the personal motives of the “leaders” of the community in the early modern period. The detailed information about the events after the arrival of Syrian bishops reveals the complex relation between the Syrian bishops, the Syrian Christians, the Portuguese and the Dutch which substantiates the manipulative and polemical nature of church history. This study also presents the problems of translation by examining how certain events in the original text are “re-represented” and “practically” omitted. |
| Supervisor | Perczel, István |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/joy_emy.pdf |
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