‘Reconstructing babel’: Christian missions and knowledge production in the Middle East, nineteenth-twentieth century

How was missionary knowledge received and interpreted by scholars church historians in Europe Russia? Many late nineteenth early twentieth-century academics utilised production from Christian missions, notably way of scholarly Orientalism. However, the history this is also a representations: while helped showcase cultural religious traditions Eastern Christianity, what were underlying motives especially consequences? This article examines formulation circulation on either side Mediterranean, basis Catholic archives academic productions, study which sometimes rooted non-Anglophone traditions. The aim to shed light how relating Christianity assimilated Europe, as well role missions played process, last third century, when institutions instruments for emerged. Another objective address circulations transformations Mediterranean: collected developed major European libraries universities, it integrated governance structures churches, but quite often returned space originated from, where reappropriated gave rise patrimonial processes, alongside tragic experiences certain communities during end Ottoman Empire establishment new states. at intersection East West, heart dynamic .