The Armenian Imaginary in the West, 1100-1900: Crusades, Romances, Missionaries

Examines how Armenia has been represented and "imagined" in texts from two periods in its history: the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century.


Today most people who think of Armenia associate it with the genocide of 1915, the struggle Armenians waged after the First World War to reclaim their ancient lands in Anatolia, a struggle complicated by centuries of subordination to the Ottomans, by persistent Russian efforts to exert influence and claim territory, and by Western indecision manifeste...