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  1. 2012

    The Bible in Armenian

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Sets the introduction of the Bible to Armenia and the process of its translation and reception against the wider socio-political, religious and cultural currents of Late Antiquity. Cowe notes how missionary religions became catalysts for the creation of new writing systems, and how Christianity's transition from illicit practice to dominant cultural arbiter raised the Bible's status as the physical embodiment of the divine word. He situates Armenia as a buffer state between Rome and Sasanian Persia, showing how that geopolitical position shaped its religious development, then works through the historical matrix of the translation, its parent texts, and the recensional history of the Armenian scriptures.

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  6. 2009

    Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule: 1908–1914

    Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob

    A documentary study of the ARF during the Ottoman constitutional period, built on the party's own internal records read against British, American and German diplomatic archives. Kaligian reconstructs how the ARF organized, governed itself, and operated as a legal parliamentary party after 1908. The book's central target is the historiographical dispute over ARF relations with the Committee of Union and Progress, which he sets out to resolve by reducing the overemphasis on external accounts. It gives a comprehensive picture of Armeno-Turkish relations across the brief window of constitutional rule.

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  10. 2006

    The Armenians in the Era of the Crusades, 1050-1350

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Argues that the defining issue for Christendom in this period was ecclesiology, and that for the Armenians it took the form of renewed debate with the other Christian traditions of Byzantium, western Europe and the Near East. Cowe traces the consolidation of the Armenian Church from the catholicate of Yovhan Odznetsi, whose synods reaffirmed one-nature Christology and linked it to the joint celebration of Nativity and Baptism on 6 January and the use of unleavened bread and unmixed wine. He describes the defence of church structures, sacraments and religious art against the Paulicians, the compilation of doctrine and canon law, and an expanded sanctorale centred on St Gregory the Illuminator, all set against the great population movements of the era.

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  12. 2001

    Ani: World Architectural Heritage of a Medieval Armenian Capital

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Contains the papers delivered at the First International Symposium on the history, culture and architectural significance of Ani, together with an international appeal for the city's preservation. The symposium brought together the most prominent scholars of the medieval Armenian capital, as part of a series of events marking the millennium of the Great Cathedral of Ani, sponsored by the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America.

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  13. 2001

    Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911: The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland

    Berberian, Houri

    The fullest treatment of Armenian politicization and participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, in which the ARF was the decisive Armenian actor. Berberian first traces the nineteenth-century situation of Armenians, with emphasis on the Ottoman provinces and on the Russian Caucasus as the source of the nationalist-socialist revolutionary movement. She then examines the ideological, political and pragmatic motives that drew Armenians into the Iranian revolution, and the collaboration between Armenian and Iranian constitutionalists, including the military contributions Armenians made. The study also opens up, for the first time, the roles and activism of Iranian Armenian women.

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  14. 2001

    Modern Armenian Drama: An Anthology

    Parlakian, Nishan and Cowe, S. Peter

    Available in English for the first time, the anthology presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage spanning over a century (1871–1992), exploring science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation and political reform through all the major European dramatic genres. Parlakian and Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of Armenian drama, a biography of each playwright, and a preface to each play placing it in its historical and cultural context.

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  16. 1994

    Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Catalogues 25 full Armenian manuscripts, one in Armeno-Turkish and two vellum fragments. Though the collection originates in the eighteenth century, it is mainly constituted by small bequests and purchases from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume's detailed description of each codex greatly expands on Ellis's 1926 handlist. The holdings are representative of Armenian book arts, comprising ecclesiastical genres for scriptural, liturgical and didactic use, ranging from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries: about half dating to the seventeenth century as commissions displaying merchant munificence. Roughly four-fifths show some illumination.

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  17. 1993

    Mxit'ar Sasnec'i's Theological Discourses

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Cowe produced both the critical edition of the Armenian text and the English translation of the theological discourses of Mkhitar Sasnetsi, a leading Armenian churchman and scholar of the first half of the fourteenth century, published in the CSCO: the principal international series for editions of Eastern Christian texts. The two volumes appear as CSCO 542 (Armenian text) and CSCO 543 (English translation).

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  19. 1992

    The Armenian Version of Daniel

    Cowe, S. Peter

    Cowe's 490-page critical study and edition of the Armenian version of the Book of Daniel, in the University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies series. He cites it himself in his New Cambridge History of the Bible chapter, and it underpins his 2014 Brill chapter on the reception of Daniel in Armenian society.

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  20. 1984

    Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912)

    Ter Minassian, Anahide

    A compact study of how nationalism and socialism interacted inside the Armenian revolutionary parties between the founding of the Hunchakian party and the eve of the First World War. Ter Minassian examines the ideological formation of the Dashnaktsutyun and the Hunchaks against the background of Russian populism, Marxism and the Balkan movements, and traces debates over federalism, class struggle and the 'Specifists.' The volume gives sustained treatment to Kristapor Mikayelian, Droshak, the party congresses, the fedayi, and the ARF's relation to the Social Democrats. It remains a pioneering scholarly treatment of socialist currents in the Ottoman and Russian Armenian context.

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  21. 1971

    The Republic of Armenia, Vol. 1: The First Year, 1918–1919

    Hovannisian, Richard G.

    The first volume of the standard four-volume history of the First Republic of Armenia, the state governed by the ARF. It covers the road to independence in May 1918, the first steps of the new government, the Armeno-Georgian conflict, the first winter of famine and refugees, the struggle for Artsakh and Zangezur, the annexation of Kars, expansion toward Nakhichevan, Armenia at the Paris Peace Conference, Caucasian diplomacy with the White armies, and the first Bolshevik horizons. Built on Armenian, Russian, British and American archival sources, with sustained engagement with the Dashnaktsutyun and with Kachaznuni, Khatisian, Vratsyan and Aharonian.

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  22. 1963

    The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century

    Nalbandian, Louise

    The first comprehensive English-language study of the nineteenth-century Armenian revolutionary movement and the rise of the Armenian political parties. It traces armed struggle against Ottoman rule from the uprising of 1862 to the massacres of 1896, and charts the shift from loose secret societies to organized parties: the Armenakan (1885), the Hunchakian Revolutionary Party, and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Nalbandian situates the party programs within Armenian political and intellectual history and clarifies their sources, objectives and results. Because Armenian leaders engaged the socio-economic theories of their day, she also examines the parties' relationship to revolutionary movements in Western Europe, Russia and the Balkans.

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