Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Contributors 7
Celebrating Armenia across Generations Helen C. Evans Thomas F. Mathews 9
The Great Kosmos of All Armenia: On the Sarcophagus of Isaac Benjamin Anderson 16
"Rare and Beautiful Ornaments": Armenian Bronze Censers Lynn A. Jones 27
Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols Antony Eastmond 39
"Red Ink and Gold and the Most Pleasing": Reading Color and Image in the Armenian Lives of the Desert Fathers Earnestine M. Qiu 52
Imaging and Imagining Armenian History: Manuscript Illustration in Early Modern Vaspurakan Erin Pinon 61
An Ode to an Armenian Silk Merchant in 16th-Century Aleppo Kristina L. Richardson 76
"A Ship with Two Rudders"? Gregorio di Girach-Mirman of Venice, Global Armenian Trade Networks, and Religious Ambiguity in the Age of Confessionalization Sebouh David Aslanian 85
The Ruins of Ani Peter Balakian 109
Bibliography 123
Photograph and Illustration Credits 135