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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (2022)
Book
Parker, L. (2022). Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865175.001.0001

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch explores the authority of a holy man and its limitations in times of crisis, with a particular focus on the little-studied Antiochene stylite Symeon the Younger. Symeon the Younger (c.521–92) lived... Read More about Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History.

On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552 (2022)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2022). On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552. In T. Krstić, & D. Terzioğlu (Eds.), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries (429-450). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243586-017

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.