Lecture: "On Samuel of Edessa, Mattai of Aleppo, and Wapha, the Aramean Philosopher, or, Syriac Literature as a 'Miserable Wreck'"

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Location: Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library) (View on map )

Jack Tannous is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, where he teaches late antiquity. His research focuses on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the Middle East, particularly its Syriac- and Arabic-speaking Christian communities, in the second half of the first millennium. 

Reception to follow.

This lecture is part of the Mid East Working Group sponsored by the Dean’s office and the Medieval Institute.

Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.