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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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