Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800

A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period

Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in 1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora. Linking far-flung locations in Amsterdam, Livorno, Marseille, Saint ...