Recent historiography has presented some early modern Eastern Christians as transnational and transcultural subjects in a global world. This study focuses on the long-distance mobility of Greek Catholic Melkite monks from two congregations on Mount Lebanon after the Antiochian schism of 1724. These Shuwayrite and Salvatorian religious friars, often rivals, traveled to Egypt to accompany the Melkite diaspora, especially merchants in Damietta and Cairo. Some conducted alms-seeking missions for their congregation in Catholic Europe, particularly in Spain, despite a prevailing context of widespread mistrust toward such “vagabonds”. The orders sent monks to Rome where they hoped to obtain establishments to train their young friars, to facilitate fundraising, and to defend their order before the Roman Curia.
University of Reims Champagne, France - ORCID: 0000-0001-9394-5326
Chapter Title
La Méditerranée des basiliens melkites au XVIIIe siècle. Jalons pour l’étude des mobilités des moines catholiques orientaux
Authors
Aurélien Girard
Language
French
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4.07
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Cristiani orientali e Repubblica delle Lettere (XVI-XVIII sec.) / Chrétiens orientaux et République des Lettres (16e-18e s.) / Östliche Christen und die Gelehrtenrepublik (16.-18. Jh.)
Editors
Marcello Garzaniti, Vassa Kontouma, Vasilios N. Makrides
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Number of Pages
510
Publication Year
2024
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0645-7
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979-12-215-0646-4
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979-12-215-0647-1
Series Title
Europe in between. Histories, cultures and languages from Central Europe to the Eurasian Steppes
Series ISSN
2975-0318
Series E-ISSN
2975-0326