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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period of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.
Angiolello • Armenia/Armenias • Ottoman Empire • Caucasian text • Cultural Memory • Abovian • The Soviet Union • Cilicia • Ararat • Travel diary • Parrot • Crypto-Armenians • Crimea • Armenia • Identity • Propaganda Fide • Rise of archaeology, 17th to 19th centuries • Turkey • Manuscripts • Bitov • Kemal Yalçin • Strabo • Paolo Piromalli • Dominican Order • Venetian Travellers • Western Armenia • Paolo Maria Cittadini • Catholicos • Armenian manuscripts • Journey of discovery • Persia • Het’um • Naxiǰewan • Councils • Genocide stages • Western travellers • Armenian text • Dissidents • Toporov • Travels • Free expression • Travel literature • Embassies • Barbaro • Gaṙni • Jewish Russians • Ottomans • Ōgostinos Baǰenc‘ • Genocide • Mechitarist Congregation • Early modern missions • British noblemen • Memoirs