Beschreibung:
Aurélien Girard is Senior Lecturer at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, member of CERHIC. He specialised in the multifaceted history of Eastern Christians (16th-19th c.) and the history of European orientalism. His last publications include 'Was an Eastern scholar necessarily a cultural broker in early-modern academic Europe? Faustus Naironus (1628-1711), the Christian East, and Oriental studies, ' in Nick Hardy and Dmitri Levitin (eds), Faith and History: Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Presents a collection of Bernard Heyberger's studies in Middle Eastern Christianity for the first time in English, accompanied by an essay discussing the importance and legacy of his work and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings.