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Mnatsakanyan, Yeva, 2025
Բանբեր Երևանի համալսարանի. Բանասիրություն / Bulletin of Yerevan University B: Philology, Vol. 16, No. 3(48), pp. 21–34 (Yerevan State University Press); DOI 10.46991/BYSU.B/2025.16.3.021
Treats Komitas: composer, musicologist, folklore collector, teacher, and founder of the Armenian school of composition, as a national symbol whose fate is read as the fate of the Armenian people. The article analyzes the worldview and psychological registers of his letters and the philosophy condensed in them, presenting the vardapet as both a son of his environment and a world-recognized musician with a dramatic inner life. Its aims are to use the letters as an instrument for revealing an inner world, to interpret their key messages from the standpoint of present-day artistic consciousness, and to trace intercultural communication through them. The author concludes that the letters do not fully unlock Komitas, but confirm that he purified, notated, and created 'the majestic homeland of our song.'
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Cox, Claude, 2024
Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 35–51 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); ISSN 3041-5063
Reflects on producing a fully critical, eclectic edition of the classical Armenian translation of Deuteronomy, replacing an earlier diplomatic edition after forty years. Discusses the textual-criticism value of the Armenian version as a secondary witness to the Old Greek/Septuagint, the difficulty a non-Greek version poses for reconstructing its source text, and the methodology and rewards of collating manuscripts. Published by the Matenadaran, Armenia's institute of ancient manuscripts.
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Arlen, Jesse, 2023
Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 119–142 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice); DOI 10.30687/arm/9372-8175/2023/01/006
Applies 'history of the book' theory to show how Mxit'ar of Sebastia, founder of the Mekhitarist Congregation, used paratexts (title pages, frontispieces, dedications, prefaces, illustrations, epilogues) in his publishing mission to shape how his books were read. Argues he presented himself as a 'second Maštoc'' and his students as heirs to the fifth-century Holy Translators, transmitting Armenian Christian literary tradition under the Roman Catholic Church. Links early modern Armenian print culture to questions of identity and religious continuity.
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Vardumyan, A. D., 2015
Fundamental Armenology, No. 2, 2015 (National Academy of Sciences of RA, Yerevan); ISSN 1829-4618
A Matenadaran musicologist traces music therapy in Armenian medieval science: from the 5th-century philosopher Davit Anhaght through the 12th-century Cilician physician Mkhitar Heratsi, and shows how Komitas Vardapet became the first musicologist to study it, drawing on a medieval Ejmiatsin manuscript describing the healing influence of sacred music.
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Kertmenjian, David G., 1981
Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս / Haigazian Armenological Review, Vol. Թ (9), pp. 7–40 (Haigazian University, Beirut)
A study of the architecture and urban planning of the commercial-social centers (marketplaces and trade hubs) of medieval Armenian cities, examining their design characteristics within the context of Armenian history and trade relations. Published in the Haigazian Armenological Review, the flagship Armenological journal of Haigazian University in Beirut and a major diaspora scholarly institution.
