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Non-Professional Expertise: On the Early Modern Transformations in Armenian Manuscript Production Viewed from Ottoman Tokat and Crimea
Polina Ivanova · 2025
Catalogue summary
Step‘anos of Tokat’s career as refugee priest, poet, manuscript-maker, and merchant-linked entrepreneur anchors a social history of Armenian book production after wars damaged monastic scriptoria.
Why this matters
His mobility shows how lay commerce and displaced expertise reshaped scribal labor when Anatolian and Caucasian communities faced severe shortages of manuscripts.
Citation
Polina Ivanova 2025. Non-Professional Expertise: On the Early Modern Transformations in Armenian Manuscript Production Viewed from Ottoman Tokat and Crimea. DIYÂR. https://doi.org/10.5771/2625-9842-2025-1-16
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