Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia
(2022)
Journal Article
Parker, L., & Maxton, R. (2022). Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia. Past and Present, 257(1), 89-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab037
This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on tr... Read More about Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia.