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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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