Descripción del proyecto
Una metodología conectada para estudiar el cristianismo etíope y siríaco
Los países modernos de Etiopía y Eritrea tienen una tradición cristiana que se remonta a los primeros siglos de nuestra era. A lo largo de su dilatada historia, el cristianismo etíope ha tenido varios puntos de contacto con el cristianismo siríaco, originario de Oriente Medio. El proyecto BeInf, financiado con fondos europeos, estudia las historias conectadas del cristianismo etíope y siríaco desde cinco puntos de vista diferentes. La metodología empleada se basa en una mezcla de disciplinas aparentemente incongruentes. El proyecto también renuncia a la influencia como principal herramienta de análisis y adopta en su lugar una metodología de «historia conectada» relacional para obtener una comprensión más profunda y matizada del cristianismo etíope y su relación con el cristianismo siríaco.
Objetivo
The innovative BeInf project interrogates the connected histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity in their various complexities and nuances. It accomplishes this task through a series of five discrete, but complementary case studies addressing: 1. Aramaic loanwords in Ethiopic; 2. the so-called Nagran Episode, in which the sixth-century Aksumite ruler Kaleb intervened on behalf of Syriac Christians who were being persecuted in the Arabian peninsula; 3. the Ethiopic Abba Gärima Gospels, including especially their illumination programs; 4. the hagiography of the Nine Saints, who are alleged to have brought about a “second christianisation” of Ethiopia in the late fifth and early sixth centuries; 5. the Ethiopic reception of Syriac literature. BeInf’s innovation is multifaceted. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together methods that are traditionally categorized as distinct and disconnected, including especially art history, linguistics, manuscript studies, philology, textual studies, and history. In addition, it rejects area studies and unites fields that have traditionally been isolated and siloed off in problematic ways. Finally, it proposes to move beyond influence as an analytical category for analysing connections, contacts, exchanges, and the actors and cultural brokers responsible for them and instead adopts a methodological and theoretical stance inspired by “connected history”, especially in the sense of histoire croisée. With these innovations, BeInf is positioned to make significant, long-lasting contributions to the field of Ethiopic Studies, both in content and in concept, while also serving as a paradigm-shifting model for other projects in the humanities addressing areas of inquiry that have traditionally been dominated by ill-framed questions of influence and that are primed to move beyond influence to explore connected histories with all their nuance, complexity, and texture through a multi-disciplinary approach.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
20148 Hamburg
Alemania