Five Hundred Bones from Constantinople: Monks, Manuscripts, and Memory at the Eastern Borders of Byzantium
Reyhan Durmaz · 2022
Catalogue summary
Two Syriac saints’ lives trace stories of relics carried from Constantinople to eastern monasteries, showing how medieval hagiography used bones and True Cross fragments to remember Byzantium and negotiate rivalry with the Armenian Church.
Why this matters
The narrative analysis illuminates Armenian-Syriac religious relations through memory practices rather than treating relic legends only as factual itineraries.
Citation
Reyhan Durmaz 2022. Five Hundred Bones from Constantinople: Monks, Manuscripts, and Memory at the Eastern Borders of Byzantium. Harvard Theological Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017816022000232
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