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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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