Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on the Editors x
6. Abbreviations and Acronyms xii
7. Note on Transliteration xiii
8. Note on the Text xiv
9. Foreword 1
10. Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians 10
11. Part I Mobility, Networks and Protection
12. 1. Eastern Christians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Catholic Europe 49
13. 2. The Wasted Career of an Eastern Clergyman in Italy: Timothy Karnuk (Timoteo Agnellini), Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mardin 90
14. 3. Security and Insecurity: Syrian Christians in the Mediterranean (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) 105
15. 4. A Border-crossing Ottoman Christian at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: Ḥannā Diyāb of Aleppo and his Account of his Travel to Paris 124
16. 5. The Migration of Middle Eastern Christians and European Protection: A Long History 142
17. Part II Building Confessional Identities: Entangled Histories
18. 6. The Westernisation and Confessionalisation of Christians in the Middle East: An ‘Entangled History’ (‘Histoire Croisée’) 163
19. 7. Polemic Dialogues between Christians and Muslims in the Seventeenth Century 182
20. 8. From Religious to Secular Imagery? The Rise of the Image among Christians in Syria and Lebanon in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries 199
21. 9. Individualism and Political Modernity: Devout Catholic Women in Aleppo and Mount Lebanon between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries 225
22. 10. Saint Charbel Makhlouf, or the Consecration of Maronite Identity 245
23. Epilogue: The Maestro and his Music 264
24. Complete Bibliography of Bernard Heyberger (December 2021) 271
25. Bibliography 292
26. Tabula Gratulatoria 323
27. Index 329