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 Through the analysis of primary sources and unpublished documents, the theme of travel to Armenia is addressed from historical, art-historical, religious, philological and literary perspectives, covering a period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