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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:medieval Armenian architecture
Showing 2 of 2 matching publications (200 total) · catalogue updated 2026-07-22
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Architecture of Medieval Armenia as a Field of Research for Russian and Italian Scholars: Comparative Analyses of the Historiography

Kazaryan, Armen Yu., 2023
Arts, Vol. 12, No. 6, art. 238 (MDPI); DOI 10.3390/arts12060238

Compares two major architectural-archaeological missions to the built heritage of the Armenian Highlands: the Russian Ani Archaeological Expedition (1892–1917) and the Italian programmes of the Universities of Rome and Venice and Milan Polytechnic (1966 to the 1980s). Kazaryan evaluates what each contributed and argues the differences in their results stem from the chronological gap and from divergent orientations. The Russian work was primarily archaeological, the Italian primarily architectural. Nikolay Marr aimed to exhibit original artifacts in the museum he founded at Ani, while the Italian professors relied on photography for exhibitions. The article also draws on the Ani fieldwork of the architect Toros Toramanian.

Animedieval Armenian architecturehistoriographyNikolay MarrToros Toramanian
English
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Ani: World Architectural Heritage of a Medieval Armenian Capital

Cowe, S. Peter, 2001
Peeters, Leuven; University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies 16; XVIII+161 pp.; ISBN 9789042910386 (Cowe is editor)

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.

Animedieval Armenian architectureBagratid capitalcultural heritage preservationmonument conservation
English

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