Armenian Journey
From Antiquity to the Present Day
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abstract
This volume gathers essays by scholars of different backgrounds dedicated to the narratives that visitors, merchants, missionaries and travellers of various historical periods and origins have dedicated to Armenia, its history and culture. Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period of almost a thousand years.
The Soviet Union • Paolo Piromalli • Western travellers • Armenian manuscripts • Crimea • Dissidents • Genocide • Abovian • Jewish Russians • Memoirs • Travel diary • Kemal Yalçin • Naxiǰewan • Dominican Order • Western Armenia • Paolo Maria Cittadini • Barbaro • Armenian text • Parrot • Strabo • Embassies • Genocide stages • Manuscripts • Ottomans • Caucasian text • Gaṙni • Persia • Het’um • Councils • Bitov • Free expression • Rise of archaeology, 17th to 19th centuries • Turkey • Cultural Memory • Propaganda Fide • Venetian Travellers • Cilicia • Travel literature • Crypto-Armenians • Ōgostinos Baǰenc‘ • Early modern missions • Angiolello • Identity • Journey of discovery • Ararat • Mechitarist Congregation • British noblemen • Armenia • Catholicos • Armenia/Armenias • Travels • Toporov • Ottoman Empire