Tolerance as a European norm or an ottoman practice?
Bilgin AyataMedia coverage of the 2007 Sourp Khatch reopening is used to test whether Turkish minority-rights language reflects European norms or repackaged Ottoman tolerance.
2012BookOpen Access
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2012 2011 ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS IN JERUSALEM: 1700 YEARS OF PEACEFUL PRESENCE
Laury HaytayanAcross seventeen centuries in Jerusalem, Armenian religious authorities and the wider community maintained a permanent presence through successive conquests, negotiated compromises, and shared responsibility with Greek and Latin churches for safeguarding Christian Holy Places.
2011Journal ArticlePaywalled2011 Categories of definiteness in Classical Armenian
Angelika MüthGreek and Classical Armenian New Testament noun phrases are compared across contrastive, generic, proper-name, and pragmatic uses of the definite article.
2011Journal ArticleOpen Access2010 Elusive Equality: The Armenian Genocide and the Failure of Ottoman Legal Reform
Mark L. MovsesianA comparative law-and-religion approach connects nineteenth-century changes in Ottoman Christians' legal status to the Hamidian massacres and ultimately the 1915 Armenian Genocide, locating mass violence within failed reform and intercommunal state relations.
2010Journal ArticleOpen Access2009 “The Armenian Question Is Finally Closed”: Mass Conversions of Armenians in Anatolia during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895–1897
Selim DeringilDeringil situates mass conversions of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres within late Ottoman debates over nationalism, reform, and the Armenian Question. The article highlights the relative lack of Ottoman-archive research on conversions in the 1894–1897 violence.
2009Journal ArticlePaywalled2009 Anadolu’da “Protestan Ermeni Milleti”nin Oluşumu
KÜÇÜK Mehmet ALPARSLANThe article traces missionary activity (misyonerlik faaliyetleri) among Anatolian Armenians (Ermeniler), the Patriarchate's opposition to converts, British-American pressure, and Ottoman recognition of a separate Protestant millet.
2009Journal ArticleOpen Access2009 Breaking down and putting back together: analysis and synthesis of New Testament Greek
Hanne Martine Eckhoff et al.Eckhoff and colleagues describe a multilingual annotated corpus aligning New Testament Greek with Armenian, Gothic, Latin, and Old Church Slavonic translations for comparative linguistic analysis.
2009Journal ArticleOpen Access2009 Prolegomena to a critical edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, with a discussion of computer-aided methods used to edit the text
Tara Lee AndrewsThe dissertation develops a computationally assisted critical edition of Matthew of Edessa's Armenian Chronicle, studies its manuscript transmission and prophetic frame, and dates composition before 1137 through the author's treatment of Byzantines, Armenians, Saljuqs, and Latins.
2009DissertationOpen Access2009 The new age of prophecy: the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa and its place in Armenian historiography
Tara Lee AndrewsThe chapter reads Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle through two prophecies attributed to Yovhannēs Kozeṙn, showing how biblical models organize a claim that Byzantine and Armenian rulers abandoned obligations to the Armenian people.
2009Book ChapterOpen Access2008 "New Light from the East": Chronography and Ecclesiastical History through a Late Seventh-Century Armenian Source
Tim GreenwoodGreenwood analyzes a late seventh-century Armenian chronicle translated from otherwise unknown Greek works, using it to recover traditions of chronology and ecclesiastical history.
2008Journal ArticlePaywalled2007 Frederic Conybeare’s Translation of Hovhannes Yerets Khnusetsi’s “The Key of Truth”
Paruyr SahakyanThe article explains how Conybeare encountered Khnusetsi's Armenian Key of Truth at Echmiadzin, then issued both its Grabar text and English translation, widening European access to Paulikian traditions.
2007Journal ArticleOpen Access2007 Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
Beate Dignas and Engelbert WinterThis history of Roman–Sasanian relations treats Armenia as a major frontier arena within four centuries of war, negotiation, economic exchange, religious change, and imperial communication.
2007BookPaywalled2007 XIX. Yüzyılda Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri Çerçevesinde Trabzon Ermenilerine Bir Bakış An Outline on the Armenians of Trabzon in the Context of Missionary Activities in the XIXth Century
Özgür YILMAZThe Turkish study places Trabzon Ermenileri within nineteenth-century Katolik and Protestan misyonerlik, presenting schools, foreign patronage, trade, and imperial political competition as forces reshaping the city’s Armenian community.
2007Journal ArticleOpen Access2006 Amerikan Protestan Misyonerlerinin Ermeniler Arasındaki Faaliyetleri ve Bunun Osmanlı-Amerikan İlişkilerine Etkisi
Mithat AydınDrawing on Osmanlı materials, the author portrays Amerikan Protestan missions among Ermeniler after the 1840s through okul, hastane, yetimhane, and kilise institutions entangled with political mobilization and diplomacy.
2006Journal ArticleOpen Access2005 ARCHITECTURAL GENEALOGY OF HRIPSIME STYLE, BASED ON FRAME-COMPOSITION UP TO DOME, IN THE EARLY ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE
Shiro SASANO et al.Frame composition beneath the dome is used to trace two structural lineages for the distinctive Hripsime form in early Armenian churches.
2005Journal ArticleOpen Access2005 The Assassination of King Het'um II: The Conversion of The Ilkhans and the Armenians
Angus StewartStewart reconsiders the 1307 assassination of Armenian king Hetum II in relation to Ilkhan conversion, Mongol-Armenian alliances, and changing religious politics.
2005Journal ArticleOpen Access2003 The Architect Trdat: Building Practices and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Byzantium and Armenia
Christina MaranciA comparative study of tenth-century architect Trdat connects his Hagia Sophia dome repair and Ani Cathedral construction with a little-known Armenian text, revealing building practices and exchange across the Christian East.
2003Journal ArticleOpen Access2002 Mathews and Taylor, Armenian Gospels of Gladzor
Kathleen MaxwellReviewing an exhibition catalogue, the article describes UCLA's conserved fourteenth-century Gladzor Gospels, including canon tables, evangelist portraits, marginalia, and fifty-four narrative miniatures.
2002Journal ArticleOpen Access2002 Od ortodoksji do kościoła narodowego. Armenia w epoce wczesnochrześcijańskiej (301-726)
Daniel PróchniakStructured as a historical survey, the article follows Armenia's Christianization, early church organization, competing Cappadocian and Syrian orientations, hereditary offices, and ecclesiastical conflict into the medieval era.
2002Journal ArticleOpen Access2001 The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (review)
R. W. ThomsonA review assesses a two-volume translation and commentary of the seventh-century Armenian History attributed to Sebeos, emphasizing its breadth across Roman, Sasanian, and early Arab transformations.
2001Journal ArticleOpen Access2000 Religious Minorities in Iran
Eliz SanasarianSanasarian examines relations between Iran's Islamic Republic and non-Muslim minorities, including Armenians, through legal structures, ideology, institutions, and community responses.
2000BookPaywalled1995 State Dominance and Communal Perseverance: The Armenian Diaspora in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-1989
Eliz SanasarianSanasarian analyzes how Iran's Armenian diaspora maintained communal institutions under the Islamic Republic from 1979 through 1989 despite strong state dominance.
1995Journal ArticlePaywalled1990 Sayat Nova and Armenian ashoogh musical tradition
Hasming InjejikianThirty Sayat-Nova melodies are tested for rhythmic and melodic unity through Armenian folk, sacred, and ashoogh traditions, tzayn codification, poetic meter, and cadential patterning.
1990DissertationOpen Access1973 Lord Byron at the Armenian Monastery on San Lazzaro
Arpena MesrobianDrawing on rare books in the Mayfield collection, the article follows Byron's 1816 Armenian language study with Mekhitarist monks at San Lazzaro during his Venetian exile.
1973Journal ArticleOpen Access
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