Armenian Perspectives

by Nicholas Awde

Overview

Papers covering the history, religion and culture of the Armenian people, from the 10th anniversary conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700706105
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/20/1997
Series:	Caucasus World
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The first attempt to prepare a critical edition of the Armenian Bible 2. A further glimpse at the Armenian version of the Epistle of James 3 Remarks on the text of the Book of Revelation in Armenian 4. Mesrop or Mastoc'? 5 The end of the Hittite Empire: Thracians in the Armenian Highland?ARAM KossIAN6 De sainte Thede a Anahit: une hypothese d'interpretation du recit de la more de l'empereur Valens dans les Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk' 7. Elise's Armenian war as a metaphor for the spiritual life 8. Naxanj in the Letter of Lazar P'arpec'I 9 Remarques sur la tradition bilingue (grec-armenien) des Progymnttsmata d'Aelius Theon 10. The Armenian versions of Vita Silvestri 11. Collections of documents concerning Armenian-Byzantine ecclesiastical-political relations 12. Religion and politics in the reign of Het'um II 13. The poet and the tongue: some remarks on language and religion in medieval Armenian poetry 14. Interrelations between scholarship and folklore in medieval Armenian culture (translated by 5. Peter Cowe) 15. Patriarch Minas Amt'ec'i and his Diary 16. Mxit'ar Gos and his Lawcode 17. The theme of sacrifice in The vision of Death' by Yeghishe Charents: an attempt at an intertextual reading 18. Telling time by the sundial: Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia 19. Hrant Matevosjan et les ruralistes russes face au probleme des traditions et de la modernite 20. Folk beliefs in Armenian proverbs 21.

Editorial Reviews

'This collection of papers is valuable, well-rounded and intensely scholarly.' - Annual of Armenian Linguistics

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