@article {4787, title = {Record Keeping and Chronicle Writing in Antioch and Edessa}, journal = {ARAM}, volume = {12}, year = {2000}, note = {

11/12 (1999/2000)

}, pages = {409{\textendash}417}, abstract = {

It{\textquoteright}s long been noticed that a common historical material focusing on Edessa could be tracable in the Syriac chronicles. Yet we have no evidence of the existence of a so-called {\textquoteright}City Chronicle{\textquoteright}. The article is an attempt to show that the chroniclers did create chronological entries, and not simply copied out what they found in the city archives or in previous texts. A common Edessenian material coming from the {\textquoteright}book of the archives{\textquoteright} under a brief analytic form or taken from independent lists of civil or ecclesiastical rulers was used by the chroniclers interested in Edessa and completed with additional informations. It{\textquoteright}s not a longer form of Edessenian {\textendash} or Antiochan {\textendash} material coming from the archives or a whole embracing original chronicle which must be postulated, from which the chroniclers would have exerpted what they were interested in. That{\textquoteright}s not likely because of the very function of the archives: they kept documents and records of the main events but were not by themselves a history of the city.

}, keywords = {Chronicles}, author = {Muriel Debi{\'e}} }