Łevond Vardapet P'irłalēmean's Pastoral and Scholarly Activities in Manchester (1873-1878) and the Armenian Community
Melkonyan, Armine · 2024
Reconstructs an episode in the history of the Armenian community of Manchester during the pastorate of Ghevond Vardapet Pirghalemian (1873–78), a philologist, poet, traveller and church figure from Vaspurakan. Drawing on the period press, Melkonyan examines intra-community disputes, cultural and social activity, and community attitudes toward their pastor. Using Pirghalemian's own notes and colophons, she also documents the works he composed or arranged while in Manchester: a dictionary of provincial words, a collection of seals, a chronology, and volumes of Armenian colophons, and locates several long thought lost in the National Archives of Armenia and the Matenadaran.
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Melkonyan, Armine 2024. Łevond Vardapet P'irłalēmean's Pastoral and Scholarly Activities in Manchester (1873-1878) and the Armenian Community. Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 3 (2024), pp. 179–196; DOI 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/006 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice). https://doi.org/10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/006
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A Victorian Armenian merchant community, its quarrels, and the scholar-priest in the middle of it.
Diaspora-community history built on Armenian archival and manuscript sources by a Matenadaran scholar.
Our merchants in Manchester fought with their priest. He wrote dictionaries anyway.
The Armenian community of Victorian Manchester and its remarkable priest.
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