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An 18th Century Armenian Textual Critic and his Continuing Importance

Cowe, S. Peter · 1987

An assessment of an eighteenth-century Armenian textual critic and the enduring value of his work for modern editorial practice: an early instance of Cowe's long interest in the history of Armenian philology as a discipline.

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Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 20 (1986-1987), pp. 527–541 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.20.0.2017260
Year
1987
Language
English
DOI
10.2143/REA.20.0.2017260

Citation

Cowe, S. Peter 1987. An 18th Century Armenian Textual Critic and his Continuing Importance. Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 20 (1986-1987), pp. 527–541 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.20.0.2017260. https://doi.org/10.2143/REA.20.0.2017260

What this offers a reader

For students

Armenians were editing their own texts critically long before Western Armenology existed.

For academics

Early example of Cowe's disciplinary-history strand; the earliest of his articles verified here.

For the community

We were our own first scholars. This recovers one of them.

For a general reader

The eighteenth-century Armenian scholar who was doing textual criticism before the field existed.

Topics

history of Armenian philologyeighteenth-century scholarshiptextual criticismMekhitarist scholarshipeditorial methodintellectual history

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