Three episodes in Bishop Mkrtič Nałaš's Diyarbakır career reveal Armenian clerical patronage and agency intertwined with the formation of the Aqquyunlu state during the fifteenth century.
New Julfa emerges as a Safavid crossroads where Armenian, Persian, and European influences converged in churches, Khoja mansions, artists’ practice, and illuminated manuscripts over time.
Wilbrand’s Cilician embassy narrative records Epiphany processions, clergy, discantus, chants, and ceremonial sound while situating Lesser Armenia among diplomatic, military, and ecclesiastical networks.
Comparing illuminated miniatures with medieval Armenian churches, the study treats painted domes as visual documentation of architectural practice, symbolism, aesthetics, and ecclesiastical culture.
Two unpublished texts in Armenian diagrammatic chronicles are analyzed alongside a miniature to compare Adam’s sins, creation places, textual origins, and Latin-Armenian influence.
Working from Garmravank, St. Thomas, and Goms, the author documents kilisesi, jamatun, yapım tekniği, koruma değerleri, and toplumsal hafızaya around Vaspurakan monastic ensembles.
The article edits and translates an Armenian invocational prayer preserved from a lost homily on Jonah, probably translated from Syriac and attributed to Jacob of Serugh, using five witnesses in four manuscripts.
A phenomenological reading of Nerses Shnorhali's 1166 letter to Manuel Komnenos interprets his Christology as a compromise between Eastern divinity and Western anthropological emphasis.
Study of palimpsest guard-leaves in Matenadaran manuscript M963 identifies ninth-century Armenian uncial and miniature fragments, then compares their imagery with Byzantine traditions and Bagratid scriptoria.
Comparing Armenian and Latin witnesses to Irenaeus, the article investigates a disputed seven-branched term through manuscript variants, the Epideixis, oil-lamp vocabulary, and Presocratic cosmology.
Mineralogical and chemical tests on the Armenian Chapel's hidden sinopia identify carbon black and red ochre, indicating that painters collaborated with mosaicists during wet-mortar execution.
Analysis of portals designed by Trdat for Ani's late-tenth and early-eleventh-century cathedrals identifies perspective and localized Hellenistic types assembled from several architectural traditions.
A historical and legal reading presents Aghven's assembly under King Vachagan II and its canonical constitution as an early expression of Armenian constitutional procedure.
The author edits and translates oracle sayings placed beside John's Gospel in Matenadaran M9650, then compares their sequence and wording with the older Graz Armenian palimpsest.
Reviewing Marr's early Armenian studies, the article highlights his use of cuneiform inscriptions, monastic manuscripts, Khorenatsi variants, apocrypha, and medieval encyclopedia terminology.
Observation of services and interviews in Vakifli document Armenian religious music through solo, choir, and call-response forms used for feasts, saints, births, weddings, and funerals.
Beginning with seventh-century Arab conquest, the paper examines the names Armenian historical writers used for Muslims and asks how geography, religion, attributed qualities, and narrative setting shaped recognition of another ethnoconfessional community.
Comparative analysis traces how three-layer midis masonry evolved alongside structural integrity in Armenian churches from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, linking shell construction to changing architectural form.
The paper reconsiders the alleged correspondence between Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus, separating later legend from historical probability and explaining its role in legitimating Armenia as an early Christian kingdom.
Using Ottoman archives and an unpublished Armenian convert's manuscript, the authors trace seventeenth-century Catholic missions and the intra-Armenian conflicts that followed conversion.
In-situ reflectance and Raman spectroscopy identify the mineral and organic palette used across a seventeenth-century Armenian Bible and three Gospel books, while also distinguishing their facial, vestment, and hand-painting techniques.
The article reconciles accounts by Koriwn, Movses Khorenatsi, and Lazar Parpetsi about Mashtots, the earlier Daniel script, vowel signs, and creation of the Armenian alphabet.
This textual-critical survey assesses continuous manuscripts, lectionaries, patristic citations, and completed or planned editions for the Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Gothic, and Ethiopic versions of Acts, with supplemental attention to Greek and Syriac witnesses.
Gregory of Tatev's logical theology is reread to show that apophatic hiddenness and divine incomprehensibility still govern his cataphatic reasoning, scriptural interpretation, spiritual practice, and claim that unknowing is highest knowledge.
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