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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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