Description du projet
Les chrétiens d’Orient au début du monde moderne
Les chrétiens d’Orient sont largement présents dans le monde entier. Bien qu’il soit souvent perçu comme un phénomène récent, leur mouvement d’immigration remonte au début de la période moderne. À partir du XVIe siècle, les chrétiens de l’Empire ottoman ont commencé à migrer vers diverses destinations, notamment l’Europe, l’Inde, la Russie et même les Amériques. Leurs histoires sont consignées dans de nombreuses archives, chancelleries et bibliothèques d’Europe et du Moyen-Orient. Le projet SoSGlobal, financé par l’UE, vise à rassembler et à analyser un large éventail de documents littéraires, documentaires et imprimés datant de 1500 à 1750. Ce corpus couvre trois continents, englobe dix langues et s’appuie sur des dizaines d’archives. Le projet permettra une compréhension sans précédent de l’histoire globale et connectée du christianisme oriental au cours de cette période importante.
Objectif
From Lebanese immigrants in Argentina to Iraqi refugees in Sweden, Eastern Christians can be found today scattered across the entire world. Too often, however, this global migration has been seen purely as a modern development, one arising from contemporary political and confessional events in the Middle East, while in fact this phenomenon had its roots in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, Christians from the Ottoman Empire set out for distant worlds and foreign lands, travelling as far as Europe, India, Russia, and even the Americas and leaving traces of themselves across countless European and Middle Eastern archives, chanceries, and libraries. This transnational, ground-breaking project will gather all of these disparate sources into a single analytical frame to uncover, for the first time, the global and connected histories of Eastern Christianity in the early modern world. Through the work of a team of researchers under the close supervision of the PI, the project will reconstitute and analyse a ‘lost archive’ of literary, documentary, and printed sources in three continents, ten languages, and dozens of archives. Under the expert leadership of the PI, the project will include a robust strategy for dissemination, which will successfully bridge the fields of Middle Eastern, European, and global history. In doing so, this project will respond directly to one of the most pressing conceptual challenges facing global history today, that is, how to link the study of the micro-scale level of everyday life to the macro-narratives emphasised by global historians. Underlying this project, therefore, is a major intervention that seeks to advance a rigorous form of global history, and one which preserves philology and source criticism at the heart of its methodology. The outcomes of the project will include print-publications, workshops, and a searchable database of all writings by Eastern Christians from 1500 to 1750.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorymodern history
- humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artcinematography
- humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionreligionschristianity
- humanitieslanguages and literatureliterature studieshistory of literature
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
OX1 2JD Oxford
Royaume-Uni