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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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