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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:colophons
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Łevond Vardapet P'irłalēmean's Pastoral and Scholarly Activities in Manchester (1873-1878) and the Armenian Community

Melkonyan, Armine, 2024
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)

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.

Armenian diasporaArmenian Church historyManchester Armenian communitycolophonsmanuscript studies
English
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Manuscript Production Associated with Hamšēn

Cowe, S. Peter, 2005
Le Muséon, Vol. 118, No. 1-2, pp. 151–170 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.118.1.616489

Reconstructs the cultural profile of the Trapezuntine region of Hamshen from surviving codices, earlier descriptions of lost ones, and manuscripts copied or owned by Hamshentsis elsewhere. Because no major regional history survives, these documents carry heightened political, cultural, religious and economic significance. Most are liturgical, ranging from the fifteenth century to 1812, with the majority emanating from the Monastery of St Khachik the Father near the village of Eghnovit. Locally copied manuscripts generally belonged to deacons and lower clergy, while those copied elsewhere show local clergy continuing their education outside the region; the heavy use of parchment appears to reflect the role of animal husbandry in the local economy.

Hamshen Armeniansmanuscript productionmonastic scriptorialiturgical booksregional history
English

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