Epistolary Culture and the Formation of the Syriac Orthodox Church: The Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523) KU Leuven
The fifth and sixth centuries were a decisive period for the emergence of the Syriac Orthodox Church, a community rooted in the Middle East which now forms an integral part of European society. The Christological controversies sparked by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 led to divisions between churches that persist to the present. Late antique letters offer rich details about interactions between leaders of the anti-Chalcedonian, miaphysite ...